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 652 FORTY-—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 249, 250, 27 4. 1870. J¤ly ll. 1870. CHAP. CCXLIX. —An Act•to relieve the Estate held by Louis M Edge _/ham Succession """;_‘ Tax and Stamp T ax. Preamble. WHEREAS Louis M. Edge during his lifetime held the legal title to certain church and school properties in the States of Massachusetts and New York, the equitable estate being in the members of congregations worshipping there; the said Louis M. Edge departed this life upon the twenty-third day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy, possessed of the legal title  the properties of said congregations, haying first devised by his last will and testament, dated April eleyenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and duly probated at Philadelphia, March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, all the property standing in his name to one Patrick Stanton, of Pennsylvania; and whereas the State of Massachusetts in the month of March eighteen hundred and seventy and the State of New York in the uionth of April, eighteen hundred and seventy, have incorporatedlthe pastors and members of the congregations of the churches, the title to wluch were held by the said Louis M. Edrre as bodies politic to have and to hold said properties - and whereas Padihk Stanton has, by deed dated the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy, conveyed for the consideration of one dollar all the property held by the said Louis M. Edge during his life— time in the State of Massachusetts to the "Augustiniau Society " of Lawrence, chartered as aforesaid by the legislature of said State, and intends forthwith to convey the property held by the said Louis M. Edge during his lifetime in the State of New York for a like consideration of one dollar to the “Augustinian Society of New York ": Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House q" Representatives of the United MEég”*§ °",l~°“l3 States of America in Congress assembled, That the property held by mm ,,€,c;;Q§Y,$, Louis M. Edge during his lifetime, and conveyed or intended to be forthm¤=· with conveyed by his devisee, Patrick Stanton, to the “Augustinian So- §3Ff2*°h' 119* ciety of Lawrence," and the "Augustiniai1 Society of New York," be, Vol. xii. p. 485. and the same is hereby, exempted from the operation of so much of the v1;f4·°h· 173, internal revenue law, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty- 1_'  _285_ two, and its amendments as subjects said property held by Louis M. 0 xm P Edge to legacy or succession tax, or stamp tax upon the deeds of the said Patrick Stanton to the Augustnman Society of Lawrence and the Augustinizm Society of New York. Approved, July 11, 1870. July Us 1870- CHAP. CCL.—An Act for the Relief of Lot S. Bayless, Administrator of Lieutenant Illarcus W. Bagless, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United LP*W"’°"“° States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting ot b. Bayless, .- ,,dmm;m,,m,._ officers of the government be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay Lot S. Bayless, administrator of Marcus W. Bayless, deceased, late first. lieutenant and quartermaster of the forty-Fourth regiment Indiana volunteers, at the rate of the regular pay and allowzmces of officers of that rank in the army, from the fifteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to the twenty-second day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, inclusive. Ar1>n0v1s1>, July 11, 1870. July 1*% 1870- CHAP. CCLXXIV.—An Actfbr the Relief of Mrs. Mar_garet A. Laurie. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Paymentto States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the §l`“L£I1;‘l'§“*°t Treasury pay to Mrs. Margaret A. Laurie, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars, for rent for her house and premises, in the District of Columbia, used by the United States authorities for medical and hospital purposes, from June