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 408 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 305, 306. 1868. the sum of two thousand and ten dollars, this being the full amount that the said Olivar had stolen from him the thirteenth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, which was government funds. Approved, July 27, 1868. July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCCVI. —An Act for the Religfqf Sally C. Nmhrqm. P1‘¤¤¤¤bl¤- Wnmnnas the petition of Sally C. Northrop represents that in the year 13g_’g‘:'?2g; eighteen hundred and forty-eight, Henry S. Atwood, a merchant, being solicited thereto by them, purchased the discharges of certain soldiers, and obtained from them powers of attorney to procure and assign the bounty land warrants to which they were entitled under the ninth section of the act of Congress, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; and that before receiving the warrants on the discharges so purchased, the said Henry S. Atwood died; and that subsequently said warrants were duly received by Franklin K. Beck, administrator of the estate of said Henry S. Atwood, and sold by said Beck, as such administrator, to the said Sally C. Northrop, for a full and valuable consideration; and whereas it is further represented by the petitioner that, according to the forms of transfer now prescribed by law, her title to said warrants is defective, and that after careful efforts through several years, she has been unable to find the soldiers in whose names said warrants were issued, and therefore unable to perfect her title to the same; the numbers of said warrants and the names of the soldiers in whose favor they were issued being as follows, viz: 61669, John Holly; 61575, William Lutfman; 60813, George W. Bowen; 60823, James Cooper; 61672, John Gilbert; 61556, Adam H. Underwood; 60817, Henry Truitt; 61674., Henry H. Foster; 61822, Joseph Ervin; 61675, John E. Edmondson; 61820, Thomas Johnson; 61676, William Davis ; 62062, William M. Connor; 61663, Frederick  Moore; 60814, Robert Bryan ; 61665, William Holley; 60825, Green B. Driscoll; 60822, William Childers; 61819, James Lotlen; 61664, John C. Lewis; 61569, Matthew V. Gray; 61806, William B. Buokelow; 61671, William H. Hines; 60816, Pierce L. Alford; 61808, Peter Brookey; 61576, Silas M. Sullivan; 61809, Elebe H. Jones; 62111, William E. Binion ; 62337, Zadoc Pitts; 60827 John Lamerson; 62335, Thomas Lindsey; 60826, Wilson Clark; 61807, Wiley Chesser; 60824, Joel Foster; 62336, Augustus Petal; 60821, Jesse Le Grand; 61810, Persel N. Graham; 60815, Milton A. Roach; 62060, Ludwick B. Bright; 61667, Samuel C. Gordon; 61670, Patrick H. Harding; 61666, Ferrer Lankaster; 62061, William F. Hunter; 621.89, Nicholas M. Fain; 61805, John Bradley; 60812, Robert Beesley; 62064, Robert D. Brooks; 70861, Columbus W. Howard; 62373, John M. Castello; 61577, James Murray; 61562, George Somers; 62063, Charles R. Brewer; —————, John Burner: Therefore, Bc it enacted by the Bbnate and House of Representatives of the Mzited P¤¤¤*§l;<; 0 States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the location, in nc— gizbiblgp °'&¥,_cordance with law, by Sally C. Northrop, or her assigns, and the presentafor land, Sec. tion of any of the foregoing bounty land warrants so located, to the coinmissiouer of the general land office with proper legal evidence that the same has been assigned to the aforesaid Sally C. Northrop by Franklin K. Beck, as administrator of the estate of the aforesaid Henry S. Atwood, it shall be the duty of said commissioner to issue patents for the land so located as in other cases. Ayrnovmn, July 27, 1868.