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 906 THIBTY~SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 113, 114, 117, 118. 1862. squadron on the African station, and to make him such allowances, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, as under the circumstances shall appear to them reasonable and just, such allowances not to exceed the deficiencies with which the said Oliver Spencer Wood now stands charged, amounting to the ;ur;1)of sixteen hundred and twenty dollars and uinctpseven cents ($1,62 .9. A.1>1>x0vm>, June 17, 1862. June 19, 1862. CHAP. CXHI.—An Act _/Err the Relief cg/` Rose M. Harte, Widow of Edward Harte. Payment of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of jhe United $?Ei8°;gi’I";;" States of Arrwrica in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of       Patents be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money belonging to the fund of the Patent Office not otherwise approprinted, to Rose M. Harte, widow of Edward Harte, the sum of two hundred and sevent.y—four dollars and eighty cents, in full for certain papers prepared by him, by direction of the Commissioner of Parents, illustrative of the “Progress of Agriculture in the United States during ten yem·s,” and also for an article entitled “Railroads of the United States in 1850." Ar1>1z0v1:1>, June 19, 1862. J 1v,1s<s2. C .CXIV.—A Act ¢hRl`/f¢J¤S bzhbu ‘ theW}zi um —£?——— m "z,.,·;.»{.".;.,.f; .£J'5w§».» .y·§£ ZTZZZr %d,'i86’K""’ '” “ "g Payment of Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United 2f§;_;:s°§;“*L‘; States of America in Congress assembled, That the Second Auditor of bumgng or me the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and required to ascertain and gV¤¤b*¤8*¤°¤ I¤· determine the amount of property lost. by each of the sisters of charity, mary` and female servants employed in the Washington Infirmary at the time of its conilagration, which occurred on the night of the third of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the amount so determined, not exceeding in the aggregate six hundred and twenty dollars, shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the claimants respectively. APPROVED, June 19, 1862. gum go, 1g6g_ CHA!. CXVH. ——An Act jbr the Relif of Commodore Hiram Paulding. payment t,, Be it enacted  the Senate and fbuse of Representatives 1y' the United {Hiram Paulding States of America m Congress assemblezi That the Secretary of the l2;;:£€“S°° ° Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to Commodore Hiram Paulding, c>f the United States navy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twelve hundred dollars, or so much thereof as he may be satisfied is necessary t0°reimburse him for his expenses incurred in defending himself against a. suit brought against him for taking Charles McDonald (one of William Walker’s fol-· lowers) from the steamer “Morgan," at San Juan del Norte, in Nicaragua. and sending him on board the United States ship “Saratoga.," in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, the said Paulding being at the time Haggiiicer m command of the home squadron, and acting in the line of his uty. Avrnovzn, June 20, 1862. J 20 1862. Gun. CXVIII.——An Ae: m B. Y Shel h' Cla' d I ·‘· E··4·····—· taken fiom him by the Onega Reservazimfiln £Te; ei¢cq; q ;` 1 <; ehmZ ¢£T Puyrnénc to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represrmiatives of the United g§;‘H;;j“° Y- States of America in Ozmgress assembled, Tha: there be, and hereby is, appropmated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appr0·