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 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 194, 195, 196,197,19S. 1868. 391 late 2. private in company C, sixty-first regiment New York volunteers, and allow and pay her a. pension, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, commencing February second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. APPROVED, July 20, 1868. CHAP. CXCV. —An Act for the Relig q" Samuel N Miller. July zo, ms. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Represeniatives of ihe United States of America in Congress assembled, That Samuel N. Miller, who Samuel N. obtained a patent. for an improved compound anchor, dated the twenty- “{Q}l§;‘;;‘é;‘5;u ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and fiiiy-two, for foum·en ye;1z·s,g;*pm,,;, which expired on the twenty-ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be authorized to apply to the commissioner of patents for the extension of said patent For seven years, under the regulations now in ibrce in relation to the extension of patents; and the commissioner of patents is hereby directed to investigate and decide the application for extension on the same evidence and in the same manner as other applications fbi- extension are decided: Provided, That the applications {br ex- PF<>Vi¤°· temiou be made within sixty days after the approval of this act, and the deezieiou of the commissioner be rendered within ninety days from the filing of said application in the patent office: And provided also, That Provisonothing herein shall be so construed as to hold responsible in damages any person who may have manuthetured or used the said improved compound anchor between the expiration of the said patent and the approval 0f this act. APPROVED, July 20, 1868. CHAP. CXCVI. -An Actjbr the Relief of Robert Ford. July 20, 1868. Be it enacted by the Senate and House q" Representatives of the (/iziied States of Am/erica in Congress d85B7h6J8i That there be, and is hereby, Paymentto appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appro- R°b€*`*F°*`d· priatcd. the sum of eight hundred and fourteen dollars to Robert Ford, in full payment for his time and services as :2. teamster in the quarterm:xster’s department of the army from May first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to August first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. A1-*1*1c0vE1>, July 20, 1868. CHAP. CXCVII. —An Act granting a Pension to the Children of W7Iliam M iVoo£en, July 20,.1868. deceased. —_—*———°_' Be it enacted ky the Senate and House ¢y" Representatives of the United States of America in Oongress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- ¥;g“$i°“ fwu terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the $:1, i?“;)00mn: pension mil, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the names of Alfred C. Wooten, Susan M. T. W`00ten, Jesse Wooten, and Rosalie, M. Wooten, children under sixteen years of age of William M. Wooten, deceased, late a private in Daviess County company of home guards, Kentucky militia, and to pay to them, or to their legally appointed guardian or guardians, a pension to commence on the eleventh day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and to continue until they severally attain the age of sixteen years. AI’PROVED, July 20, 1868. CHAP. CXCVIII, -—- An Act granting a Pension to John Sheets. July 20, 1868. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States q" America in Congress assembled, Than the Secretary of the In- J ¥¤¤§{°¤ 3 tcrior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the °m we '