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 PRIVATE ACTS OE THE THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS or run UNITED STATES, Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day ef December, A. D. 1863, and ended on Monday, the fourth day of Juhq, A. D. 1864. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President. HANNIBAL HADILIN, Vice-President and President of the Senate. DANIEL CLARK was elected President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the twenty-fifth day of April, and so acted until the end of the session. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. X.- An Act to indemnyy the Owners of the British Schooner Glen. TBD- Wi 1864- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to the I¤d¤¤1¤}igl P9 h owners of the British schooner “Glen," out of any money in the treasury §;m°;fe;)G];;ls not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventeen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-six cents, the same_ being the amount awarded as an indemnihcation to the parties interested, by the district court of the United States of America for the southern district of New York, for costs, damages, and expenses, by reason of the illegal seizure of the said vessel and cargo as prize. Approved, February 13, 1864. CHAP. XII. --An Act for the Reli<y‘”¢y' the Heirs of Noah Wiswall. Feb. 22, 1864. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress dssemlzled, That the proper accounting Accotnnts pf ofiicers of the United States be, and are hereby, directed to audit an ac- *;;;g;§_,g,,N,§;,, the count between the United States and the legal representatives of Noah United States to Wiswall, assignee of Daniel Chilson, for the amount of purchase-money b:_3dJ“S*"d and paid by said Daniel Chilson on the thirteenth day of July, eighteen hun- D I ` dred and thirty-five, by his agent, Amariah `Watson, to J. W. Stephenson, receiver of public moneys at Galena, Illinois, per receipt number twelve hundred and eighty-two, for eighty acres of the west half of the southwest quarter of section number fifteen, in township number sixteen north, of range number eight east, of the fourth principal meridian, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five centsper acre; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to pay said amount upon such adjustment, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 22, 1864. CHAP. XIX. -—An Act to authorize the Settlement of the Accounts xy' Pagmaster E. C. Ljapch 3, 1364, Doran. """_""` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the payments made by William H. Peters, of Virginia, to the mechanics, laborers, and other employees of the Norfolk Navy Yard, for wages due to them by the