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 THIRTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 93, 94, 95, 96. 1861. 889 Czur. XCIII. —An Act for the Relie/'qflolm K Sewell. March 2, 1861. Be it enacted Z4; the Senate and Mme of Representatives cfthe United Seam of America in Cbngress assembled, That John Y. Sewell, for ser- P=y¤¤¢¤¤ ¢<> vices in the restoration of the United States mail lost from the steamer ,?h“ Y1 S°Y°u Southerner on the coast of Washington Territory, and for expenses in- mL?:;;;? tiniest curred in obtaining the same from the Indians who had it in their posses- mdsion, be, and he is hereby, allowed the sum of one thousand dollars in full for his claim therefor, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 2, 1861. CHAP. XCIV. -— An Act for the Relief of Mr:. Mary Ann Henry. March 2, 1801. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United , States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of ,013,::,1 Ap:;'"°” Pensions be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name Henry. of Mrs. Mary Ann Henry, of Pennsylvania, widow of the late Captain Henry Henry, of the United States navy, on the naval pension roll, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence from the first January, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, the date of her applicdion, and to continue during ber life, unless she shall again marry, in which case the pension shall cease from the date of said marriage. Approved, March 2, 1861. Crux-. XCV.— An Act for the Relief5C de Visser and Jose Villarubia, of New March 2, 186L ns. """i" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Simon de Visser and Jose Simon de Vis. Villarubia, jr., merchants of New Orleans, be, and they are hereby, re- §‘°*' *9*1 J? Vg' leased from the payment of all claims, penalties, and forfeitures which §;;:° ;,:,,_ may legally exist against them, in favor of the United States, arising out alties. of frauds committed in the custom-house of New Orleans by one Charles Meteye, they having been judicially declared to be entirely innocent of said frauds; and especially [that] they be released from the penalties and forfeitures claimed by reason of said frauds in two suits now pending in the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, in which the United States are plaintiffs, and said de Visser and Villarubia { are defendants: Provided, That the said defendants shall pay all costs in- T, p,y,,,,,,,,_ curred in said suits, and that the rights of the United States against said Charles Meteye be, and they are hereby, expressly reserved: And provided furtfuzr, That the intent and meaning of this act shall in no case be Meaning of gm, construed into a release of the said Simon de Visser and Jose Villarubia W- ot' or from any duties justly chargeable upon the goods and merchandise entered in their behalf by the said Charles Meteye, in the absence of any fraud attempted or committed in their entry by the said Meteye. Approved, March 2, 1861. Cnr. XCVI. —- An Aetfor the Rdiefq/'John E. Wheekr. March 2, ESL Be it enacted by the Senate and House of `Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Pgymqnttg Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any money in the treasury ghgétslxggigf not otherwise appropriated, to pay to John H. Wheeler, late m1n1sterP,mm,u“_ resident of the United States at Nicaragua, the sum of Eve thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty cents, in full for losses by exchange, for property destroyed at Granada, expenses incurred in taking testimony at San Juan del Norte, and for relief extended to distressed American citizens crossing the Isthmus during the interval between VOL. x11. P1<1v.—·~114