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 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 37, 41, 42, 43, 44. 1871. 681 from the seventh to the twenty-seventh day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive. J. G. BLAINE, Speaker of the Hbuse of Representatives. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Wee-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Received by the President, January 24, 1871. Nora mr TEE DEPARTMENT or STATE. - The for ing ‘ prgsented to the President of the United States for his eiiiiiovalghdhbbbgirig een returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. XLI.—-An Act or the Relic o IZ Lawrence Soott,late en tnremal Bevenub Stamps infthejlhirteentln Distric: ofPeniii_iilvdd:` me Sala 90 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting payment to H_ officers of the treasury be, and hereby are, required to pay to H. Law- Lawrence Scott. reuce Scott, late agent for the sale of internal revenue stamps in the thirteenth congressional district of Penns ylvania, the sum of one thousand two hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents, for that amount of stamps stolen from him, and since accounted for with the commissioner of internal revenue. Approved, February 9, 1871. CHAP. XLII. -—An Act for the Reliefo/`Janes, Fowler, Kirtland, and Company. Feb. 9, 1571, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oonyress assembled, That the Secretary of the Paymsntto Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Janes, ·E¤a¤» §°"l3’» Fowler, Kirtland, and Company, of New York, contractors for building Ggmgzufu the dome of the Capitol at Washington, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixty thousand dollars in full satisfaction of all claim for losses or damages arising from the action of the government in stopping, ordering, and directing the construction of said work. Approved, February 9, 1871. CHAP. XLIII. .-An Act jbr the Reliefofhim Wilson. Feb. 0, 1871. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be paid to John Paymoutto Wilson, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, J°h¤ Wu°°¤· the sum of three thousand dollars, for his services in superintending and directing the preparation of maps of the land States, for the use of the committee on the public lands of the House of Representatives, under a resolution of May fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. Approved, February 9, 1871. CHAP. XLIV. -An Aetna- the Rdiefq`Hiram A. (hating. Feb- 9, 1871. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in 0'ongress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- 1’ayment to ury is her[e]by directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not g;*;mA· Cl"' otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty dollars to Hiram A. Cutting, of Lunenburgh, Essex county, Vermont, the same being for that amount of revenue stamps destroyed by fire. Approved, February 9, 1871.