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 914 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 12, 15, IG, 18. 1863. J¤¤¤¤¤’,Y 23, 1863- CHAP. XII. -— An Act for the Relief of John B. Motley. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Paymentto States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred J°h“ B:M°“°Y and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents be, and the same is hereby, gziilfyrégiiazq appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, of Nebraska to be paid to John B. Motley, of Omaha City, in the Territory of Ne. T°"“°"Y’ braska, for compensation in full for his services as acting secretary of said Territory from March twenty-three, eighteen hundred and 6t"ty~eigl1t, to July twelve, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. Approved, January 23, 1863. January 30, 1863. CHAP. XV.—An Act for the Relief of William B. Snowhook and others. Suretles of Whereas a judgment has been recovered in the United States Circuit ch¤*l°* H: Pm Court of the northern district of Illinois against T homns Hoyne, E. S, tfixggmi ,,_ Smith, Isaac Cook, William B. Snowhook, and Richard J. Hamilton, judgment ns sureties of Charles H. Pine, late United States marshal for said °8““’“'·h°m· district, in which judgment is included 2. sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, money advanced to said Pine by the government on the ninth day of November, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty- nine, after he had become known to the officers of the United States to be 2. defaulter in office, and after two of the said sureties had egrpressly notified the late Secretary of the Interior of such official delinquency, and protested against any further liability being incurred by them ; all of which facts appear of record in the archives of the Department of the Interior: Therefore- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Solicitor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remit to the said sureties, as a credit upon the amount of said judgment in satisfaction pro tanto, the said sum of twenty-Eve hundred dollars, upon the payment of the balance of said judgment by the said securities: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall in anywise have the effect to release the principal in said bond from his liability thereon. Ar1>1z0vED._January 30, 18 G3. January 31, 1863- Cunt. XVI.—An Act for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Seneca G. Simmons: Be it enacted by five Senate and House of Representatives of the United R,p,.,,,,,,,r,. States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting tives_of Seneca  of the Treasury Department, in settling the accounts of the S; §H2Q:§({’° t° late Seneca G. Simmons, as assistant commissary of subsistence, be, and $1500. hereby ure, authorized and instructed to allow his legal representatives credit for the sum of money belonging to the United States stolen from his possession at Metamoras, Mexico, on the night of the eleventh of April, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to wit: fifteen hundred dollars. Al‘PROVED, January 31, 1863. February 3, 1863. CHAP. XVIII.—An Act to provide jbr the Payment of Expenses incurred by Me rl1arshal of Boston for Repairs to the United States Court House. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United m23i?;; Fr?: States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the furexwnxfof Treasury be directed to pay to \Vatson Freeman, late United States repairs of court- marshal for the district of Massachusetts, the sum of two hundred and h°¤¤° m B°¤*°¤· eighty~one_dollars and forty-two cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full satisfaction of the claim of said Free-