Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 14.djvu/671

 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. RES. 24, 25, 29. 1867. 641 $5000, letter D, numbers 272,801 to 272,900 inclusive; 5000, letter A, numbers 276,201 to 276,300 inclusive; 5000, letter C, numbers 270,801 to 270,900 inclusive; 5000, letter A, numbers 268,601 to 268,700 inclusive; 5000, letter C, numbers 268,601 to 268,700 inclusive; 5000, letter C, numbers 268,301 to 268,400 inclusive; 5000, letter C, numbers 275,501 to 275,600 inclusive; 5000, letter D, numbers 270,501 to 270,600 inclusive; 5000, letter C, numbers 275,301 to 275,400 inclusive; 5000, letter D, numbers 276,201 to 276,300 inclusive; 5000, letter A, numbers 275,601 to 275,700 inclusive; 5000, letter A, numbers 275,901 to 276,000 inclusive; which package was directed to Ober, Atwater, and Company, merchants of the city of New Orleans, and was registered, and receipt given by the postmaster at New York, dated October eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and was despatched through the United States mail, on the Steamship “Republic," to its place of destination, as certified by the postmaster of New York; and whereas said steamship “Republic," with the United States mails thereon, containing said sealed package, was sunk and lost in the sea on the twenty-fifth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, at a point about one hundred and forty miles east of Savannah, Georgia, and no part of the mail on board was saved or recovered: Therefore, Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stale: of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Secretary of Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay said Ober, Nanson, and *2;, r€;°gi;;Y °° Company, or their assigns or legal representatives, the amount of said gianson, mi notes, supposed to be lost as aforesaid, with the interest thereon to the C<>mP¤g*Yf*h° time of their maturity, at any time within six months after the maturity i°£:L;:m°;,°$,°:Q_ thereof : Provided, That there shall not appear, before such payment, interest notes, evidence satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, that said notes f(¥;PQ'?5‘Hg£: have not been lost and destroyed : Provided, further, That the Secretary gs|;_' of the Treasury shall require of said Ober, Nanson, and Company, their Pmviso. assigns or legal representatives, to execute and deliver such bond of Bond ,,5;,,. indemnity, with adequate sureties, as he may deem necessary, before such d¤r¤¤i|=y· payment is made. APPROVED, February 22, 1867. [No. 25.] Jain: Resoluticnjbr the Reliq of Stephen E. Jam. Feb. 22, 1ss·r. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the paymaster-general Payment to is hereby directed to pay to Stephen E. Jones the full pay and allowances §;;f;*°“ E· of a first lieutenant of cavalry for the period during which he actually ` served as aid-de-camp on the staff of General Nelson and General George H. Thomas, prior to his muster into the United States service. Approved, February 22, 1867. [No. 29.] A Resolution for the Relief of Mantha 21h0a2k. Feb. 25, 1887. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Annuityto Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay or cause to 1;}*6 Mgrtha be paid. out of any moneys appropriated for the payment of pensions, to ° °° ' Mrs. Martha_ McCook, widow of the late Major McCook, of Jeilerson County, Ohio, in consideration of the services of her husband and eight sons to the country in the late war for the Union, four of whom perished of wounds received in battle when in the line of their duty, an annuity, from and after the passage of this resolution, und during her natural life, of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, to be paid semi-annually. Approved, February 25, 1867. VOL. xiv. 41