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 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 116, 117, 118. 1865. 535 . XVI. —An Act to enable the accounti Ohm 0 reasury settle t March 3, 1865. CHAP C Claim of the State ei; ansas. fum T to he —"`_'“"" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative: of the United States 1y' America in Uongress assembled, That the proper accounting om- Cl¤l*}}]<¥` *}*8 ce;-s of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to receive see- QH0W23S:: ondary evidence, in lieu of the original vouchers, in support of a claim an amount not for expenses incurred by the State of Kansas, provision for reimburse- °X°°°"‘“€· &°· ment of which was made by the “Act to indemnify the states for ex- §gf’;%‘;g76 penses incurred by them in defence of the United States," approved July Secondary up twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, said original vouchers dence tg be rehaving been destroyed by fire at the late massacre in Lawrence, Kansas: gfpvffaiigfghff Provided, That, in the settlement of the above-mentioned claim, there uf shall not be allowed to the State of Kansas a sum exceeding the sum of twelve thousand three hundred fifty-one dollars and four cents ($12,- 351.04 . Approved, March 3, 1865. Cmlp. CXVII. — An Aol to extend the Provisions ¢y"t/wjfrst Scotia3a?` “An Act for the March 3, 1865. Government of Persons zn certam Fzshev·ies," approved una ninete, eighteen hundred and ¢h"‘*“”· Vul.,iii. p.’2. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives q/'the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the first frovisious resection of "Au act for the government of persons in certain lisheries,"   *;’0t;‘° ‘i°d approved on the nineteenth of June, in the year one thousand eight t0,,w{k€,·eFpy hundred and thirteen, shall extend and apply to the master or skipper fiSh¤F.Y- and seamen of vessels of the burthen of twenty tons or upwards, qualified according to law for carrying on the mackerel fisheries, bound from a portin the United States to be employed in such fisheries, in the same way as if such Fisheries had been embraced in said act: Provided, That Pmviso. the agreement named in said section shall be duly made, indorsed, and countersignecl. Approved, March 3, 1865. Cru!. CX VIII. ——An Act to incorporate the Colored [Brion Benevolent Association. March 3, 1865. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Omzgress assembled, That Gurdon Snowdon, Charles Colored Union Brown, James Wright, Sandy Alexander, Henry Logan, Charles Wilson, 5;’}°gi°l‘*’?* A*· Henry Brooks, John Shorter, Joseph Shorter, and their associates and p,,,:lQ3:Hn°°r` successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and title of the Colored Union Benev0· lent Association, located in the city of Washington, and by its corporate name said association shall have perpetual succession, with power to sue Corporate and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, in any court of the United P°"°"“• States or of the District of Columbia of competent jurisdiction; to receive subscriptions, gifts, and benefits, and to make such rules and by-laws as shall be deemed necessary and expedient for the government of the association, and to alter the same, from time to time, in such mode as shall be prescribed therein: Provided, always, That such rules and by-laws By-laws. shall be in nowise inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or with the objects of the association. The objects of the Objects of me association are hereby· declared to be to provide for the care and comfort °°¤°°*”l°¤· of such members as shall be sick, disabled, or dependent, and of the families of such members, in cases where the proper officers of the association shall doom it expedient, and also to provide for the decent interment of such persons as may die in membership of the association or belonging to the families of such members. Sec. 2. And be it fm-ther enacted, That said association shall have May hold rm power to hold real estate, or personal and mixed estate, by purchase, gd !E:°“¤l°°* gift, or devise, for the purposes of such association and no other, and to ° °’