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 658 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 122-124, 127. 1872. Trimble, late first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of the sixty- fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, out of the appropriation for the pay of the army, the difference between the pay of quartermaster-sergeant and that of second lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to the ninth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, inclusive, he having actually acted in the capacity of such second lieutenant and regimental quartermaster during that time, and having received therefor only the pay of a quartermastersergeant. Approved, April 26, 1872. April 26, 1872. CHAP. CXXIII. —-An Act for the Relief of R. Nelson Gere. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Com,.-act wm, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, R- N¢l¤·>¤ Gm and he is hereby, authorized to cancel the contract entered into by R. t° be °”‘“°°u°d' Nelson Gere, of the city of Syracuse, New York, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, for building a breakwater in the harbor of Oswego, in said State of New York, and to release said Gere therefrom. Approved, April 26, 1872. April 26, 1872. CHAP. CXXIV.—An Act for the Relief of Isaac B. Kin/cead. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Paymaster-General of Imc B- Ki¤· the army be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Isaac B. Kinkcad, late k°ad’ a. captain in the seventy-seventh regiment Ohio volunteers, out of any money appropriated for the pay of the army, the full pay and allowances of a captain of infantry, from the thirty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to the eighteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. J. G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Wee-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Received by the President April 15, 1872. [Norm nr THE DEPARTMENT or STATE. --The foregoing act havin been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United State, has become a law without his approval.] APFil29»1872· CHAP. CXXVII.—An Act jbr the Reliq' of Martin Watkins, of East Windsor, Connecticut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Ifew bonds to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the g;’§é‘:g{?g3‘Ia" Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue two new bonds of fifty ` dollars each, with coupons from that of January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to Martin Watkins, of East Windsor, Connecticut, in place of two coupon bonds of fiiizy dollars each, numbered twenty-eight thousand tive hundred and sixty and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty- 1865, ch. 82. one, respectively, act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and V°l·X*ll· P- 498- issue of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which said bonds above named Bond 0,-;,,- were destroyed by Hood: Provided, That before issuing the new bonds d<>¤¤¤i¤y· the Secretary of the Treasury shall require a sufficient bond of indemnity securing the government against the presentation of the aforesaid bonds alleged to have been destroyed. Approved, April 29, 1872.