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 690 FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. IH- Ch. 150-153. 1871. and their contents of the late Captain Israel S. Bunce, of the American barque Betsey Williams, for the purposes of the trial of Griiiin and Lee, charged with the murder by poisoning of said Bunce, and for mileage and expenses of traveling twice to and from the city of Boston to the city of New York, as a witness at said trial on behalf of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1871. March 8. 1871. CHAP. CLI.-An Act for the Relief of Hull and Cozzens, and John Naylor and Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Accounts o. Treasury he, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle 5:2  Et?" the accounts of Hull and Cozzens, under a contract with Mark W. Izzard, Johri N¤.ylor& governor of Nebraska, dated the twenty-eighth day of November, eigh- 3*% *0 b¤ Sel- teen hundred and ’dfty—Iive, and the accounts of John Naylor and Com- °pany, under a similar contract, dated the twenty-fifth of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for furnishing materials for the capitol buildings at Omaha. City, in Nebraska Territory, and to pay to the said Hull and Cozzens, and to the said John Naylor and Company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, any balance which may be found due them on their said contracts, not to exceed the sum of three thousand tive hundred dollars: Provided, That in making such settlement, and before payment, he shall be satisfied by the evidence that their contracts have been faithfully fulfilled ; that the materials supplied by them were accepted and used by the United States; and that the contractors have not been paid the amounts due them either by the United States or the State of Nebraska. Approved, March 3, 1871. March 3, 1871. CHAP. CLII.—An Act for the Relief zflipgan H. Roots, late Collector of internal Revenue jbr the jirsttrict of ArIcansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Credit to be States of America in Congress assembkd, That the proper accounting ’§l°{§gt}?lf“;F officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized uémsnt osu, and directed, in the settlement of the accounts of Logan H. Roots, late ¤<=¤¤¤¤°¤· collector of internal revenue for the iirst district of Arkansas, to credit and allow the sum of three thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-one cents, a deficit on account of Hugh McMurray, a deputy collector, if it shall appear that such deficit did not occur through the fault Proviso or negligence of said collector: Provided, That in case any part of said deficit shall hereafter be recovered from said McMurray or his sureties, the same shall inure to the benefit of the United States only. Ar1>1zovs1>,March 3, 1871. March 8, 1871. CHAP. OLIII. -— An Act granting a Pension to Emma M Mbore. Be it enacted by the Senate and Eause J Representatives of the United Pension to States of America in Congress assembled, That the pension heretofore émrgmme M‘ granted by the Department of the Interior to Mrs. Emma M. Cox, widow of Lieutenant John W. Cox, late of the United States navy, and which was discontinued in consequence of the marriage of said Mrs. Emma M. Cox with Edwin W. Moore, be and the same is hereby revived, at the rate of twenty-ive dollars per month, to Mrs. Emma M. Moore, to cpntinue during widowhood, and to commence at andfrom the passage of t is act. Ar:-novsn, March 3, 1871.