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 FORTY-SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 22, 23. 1873. 407 the transmission by mail of packages of semis, cuttings, bulbs, roots, and Weight and scious of any weight, for each of such packages, not exceeding four W9 °f P°““€°· pounds, at a. rate of postage of one cent for each two ounces or fractions of an ounce of such package or packages: Provided, That all mail matter A11 mail matter of the third class must be prepaid in full in postage stamps at the office of °f thm ‘El°·§S °° mailing. ge ggg¤<1 ·¤ M1 Approved, January 9, 1873. 'Y ps` CHAP. XXII. - An Act authorizing Me Secretary oftha Treasury to issue an Aznericzm Jan. 9, 1873. Register to the Englishbuilt, wrecked Schooner, N. J. Miller. """""‘ Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- American regury be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue an American register or en- ism` *° be lS’““d· rolment to the English-built schooner N. J. Miller, which schooner was ii iil§[;i$?°u°r wrecked, towed into an American port, sold to and now owned by an American citizen. Am-izovnn, January 9, 1873. CHAP. XXIII. -— An Act making Appro `ations jbr the Payment of invalid and other JM- 10. 187-% _ Pensions of the United Stwtes,_/or the Iédlr ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and `_`_`-_—_- seven/y-fbur. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America., in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and Pensions apthe same are hereby, appropriated, out of smy money in the treasury not P'°P"“'”°“• otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending the thirtioth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four: For army pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, rev- Army and rev olutionnry pensions, and pensions to soldiers of the wer of eighteen °l“*'°““?'6 P:l¤‘ hundred end twelve, and for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for ii;,??;,?,:,,?:,,,, resection, with transportation, or commutation therefor; elso, for eompen- agents, &c· setion to pension-agents, and the expenses of the several agencies, and for fees for preparing vouchers and administering 0aths,as provided for by the 1816, cb. 68. nots of April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixteen; July fourth, i8i6·°g· 262- eighteen hundred and thirty-six; May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and 13} ghf lg: forty-six; February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; February 184.8,, ch.8, 108 second, eighteen hundred and forty-eight ; July twenty-first, eighteen hun- mgé,33 ch 41 dred end fbrty-eight; July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; 1858: ch; 85: February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; June third, eighteen 1862,6*1- 166. hundred and fifty-eight; July fourteenth and seventeenth, eighteen hun- 20},,64 nk_18s_ dred and sixty-two; June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; June 1866; eh. 106, sixth and July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; July twenty- 235368 h 264 seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; June seventeenth and July 1870;;],:132; eighth and eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy; February fourteenth, 225, 238. eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and February twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and all other pensions provided by law, thirty ’ million dollars. For navy pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, and Navy pensions, pensions to sailors of the wer of eighteen hundred and twelve, and for fur- &°· nishing artiiicial limbs or apparatus for resection, with transportation or commutation therefor, oompensation to pension-agents, expenses of agen- 1800, 0h_ a3_ cies, and fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, as provided 1847, cb. 13. by the acts of April twenty-third, eighteen hundred; February twentieth, {gg gg: eighteen hundred and forty-seven; August eleventh, eighteen hundred and 201,’ forty-eight; July fourteenth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- {ggé, cg- {ggtwo; June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; June sixth and 235 ’ °’ July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six ; March second, eigh- 1867, ch.174. teen hundred and sixty-seven; July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred und lggg sixty-eight; June seventeenth and July eighth and eleventh, eighteen 225’Q3§_’ hundred and seventy; and February twentieth, eighteen hundred and 1872, GYM21-