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 598 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 65, 66, 128, 129. 1865. tion to the pensions now paid them, under former acts of congress; said payment to each of the persons hereinafter named to cease on the death of such person :— LemuelCook. To Lemuel Cook, enlisted at Hatfield, Massachusetts, is now about ninety-eight years of age, and resides in Clarendon, Orleans County, New York, three hundred dollars. samnei nom. To Samuel Downing, enlisted in Carroll County, New Hampshire, is ms- now about ninety-eight years of age, and lives in Edinburg, Saratoga County, New York, three hundred dollars. _ William Hutch- To William Hutchings, enlisted at Newcastle, Maine, (then Massachu- ¤¤s¤· setts,) is now one hundred years old, and resides in Penobscot, Hancock County, Maine, three hundred dollars. Alexander To Alexander Maroney, enlisted at Lake George, New York, as a M°”°“°y‘ drummer-boy, is now about ninety-four years old, his residence is Yates, Orleans County, New York, three hundred dollars. James Barham. To James Barham, substitute for a drafted man in South Hampton County, Virginia, lives in the State of Missouri, and is in his one hundred and first year, three hundred dollars. Copgeofttiis Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the com- $,';‘;0,d;_“* missioner of pensions, as soon as this act has been passed by both houses ` of congress, and approved of by the President, to have made out five copies of the same, each signed by the speaker of the House, the president of the Senate, and the President of the United States, and to send a copy of the same to each of the Revolutionary soldiers in this act above mentioned. When act takes Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in °°'°°°‘ force from and after its passage. Approved, February 27, 1865. Feb. 27, 1865. Cnr. LXVI. —-An Act for the Relief of Chapin Hall. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United m?¤9‘°§°¤u*° States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the wm ° ‘ Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay Chapin Hall, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-nve hundred dollars, in full for damages sustained by him in consequence of the taking and using his lumber, at Louisville, Kentucky, by General McCook’s division of the United States army, in the month of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Approved, February 27, 1865. March 3, 1865, Can. CXXVIII. — An Act for the Relief of Charles A. Pitcher. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Dm, Q, to States of America zin Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Charles?. ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any P‘“‘h°" money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Charles A. Pitcher the sum of five thousand dollars for damages sustained by reason of the infringement of a patent. on a machine for making brooms, and the use of the same in the penitentiary of the United States, from November tirst, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, to the twentieth of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Approved, March 3, 1865., Cnr. CXXIX. -An Acta Pension to S hia Brooke Ta lar, Mdow 0 the March 3, 1865 wgqw Hmak Ta;Plw· JI f Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of he United Pension to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- §°P}f* B'°°k° terior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of So- 3) °r' phia Brooke Taylor, widow of the late Francis Taylor, major of the first