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 924 THIRTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. RES. 23, 39. 1863. Feb. 25, 1863. [No. 23.] Joint Resolurion authorizing the NarZ €epur{menf in allow lo Pqymuster Gilbeyg ‘_-’—"_ ‘ E. T /2 1 th d jf e undred [ars, m {Settlement of hzs Accounts, for Money;1u’>2le•1:l fJ;2:>lfn‘ hirgzbrixxuut jdhult or Negligence on hzs Part. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Allowance States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretgry of the Navy ¤<> be made GW be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow to Paymaster Gnlbert E. Thornbm E"m°mt°¤ ton in the settlement of his accounts with said department, the sum of of $4,500 m set- a _ uemens of uc- four thousand Eve hundred dollars, that being the amount stolen from the °°"·“”· safe of said paymaster, on board the storeshup Brandywme, during his absence upon official business, and without his neglect 01: fault. APPROVED, February 25, 1863. M¤¤¢h 3, 1863· {No. 39.] Joint Resolution fn- the Relief of Kate R. Gaither and others. Preamble- Whereas the commissioners under the act of Congress entitled "An act 1862- ch- 54- for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the Dig- A"”’ P' 3m' triot of Columbia," in a special report to the Secretary of the Treasury, recommended to the equity of Congress certain cases arising under said law in which the claimants could not obtain compensation by reason of the Bling of their petitions after the day limited in said act ; and whereas said commissioners, considering the equity of said cases, and that the delay in filing said petitions was not voluntary on the part of the c1aim— ants, examined into the merits of said claims, and reported the claimants to be otherwise in every respect entitled to the benefits of said act, and in a. table marked C, in their report, reported the several amounts to which said claimants would have been entitled, and the appropriation already made for the purpose is amply sufficient to pay said claims: Therefore ——- Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United P“Y"‘°“** f" States of America in Congress assembled That the Secretary of the freed slaves to. . ’ . Treasury be, and he ns hereby, authorized to pay, out of the approprmtion heretofore made, to the following named persons the sums aifnxed to their respective names, being the same persons and sums designated in their said report in the said table marked C, viz: Km, g_Ga;the,-_  First. To Kate R. Gaither, the sum of four hundred and thirty-eight ollars. Jvhn C· Bm- Second. To John C. Brashears, Four hundred and thirty-eight dollars. ”"“"“‘ Third. To Sarah Webster, three hundred and six dollars and sixty Sarah Webster. cents ]{£gh Mcgoy. gfourth. T0 Hugh McCormick, eight hundred and 11inety-seven dollars mrc - an mnety cents. Lloyd Brooke. Fifth. To Lloyd Brooke, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty cents. A‘g¤§; C¤¤· Sixth. T0 Ann H. Cunningham, two hundred and forty dollars and ‘ ninety cents. Qgggese Ann  Seventh. To Teresa Ann Saifell, thirteen hundred and fourteen. dol- ‘ ‘ ars. Thomas J. and Eighth. To Thomas J. Perry and Mary A., his wife, five hundred and M°'Y A· P°"Y· sixtv-nine dollars and forty cents. John A. Der- ghntlg. To John A. Dorsey, eleven hundred and thirty-eight dollars Se)'- an eig ty cents. Mary Steven- 'liench. To Mary Stevenson, thirteen hundred and fourteen dollars. ’°“·  Eleventh. T0 George White, (colored,) six hundred and thirteen dol- G°°’€° W}"*°· lzxrs and twenty cents. Moses Kelly. Twelfth. To Moses Kelly, administrator of W. W. Russell, United States ermy, four hundred and fifty-nine dollars. Makxng m all the sum of seven thousand two hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents.