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 700 FORTY—-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 452—456. 1872. missary department for a bakery, from eighteen hundred and sixty-two to eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Approved, June 10, 1872. June 10 1872, CHAP. CDLTTT. —-An Act fof flle Rélllqfqf Tl20W10S D. WGS!, of Sandusky, in the ——¥——— State <y' Ohio. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Th°“‘” D·W°S*· ury be, and he is, authorized and directed to pay to Thomas D. West, of Sandusky, Ohio, nine hundred and ten dollars, in full compensation for his losses sustained, occasioned by the occupancy of his three—story stone building, in Sandusky, Ohio, by the one hundred and twenty-second New York volunteers, during the months of January, February, March, and April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Aprnovnn, June 10, 1872. June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLIV.——An Act fur the Relief of John J. Smith. Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- J°h" J· S’“‘*h· ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John J. Smith, of Vicksburg, Mississippi, the sum of nine hundred and six dollars and ninety- seven cents, which shall be in full discharge of all claims against the United States government on account of seven bales of cotton turned over to a government purchasing agent, on the fourteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in consideration of a license from the government to transport twenty-one bales of cotton to the loyal States, under the treasury regulations prescribed under the eighth section of the act of Congress approved July the second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. Approved, June 10, 1872. June 10, 1g7g_ CHAP. CDLV. -—An Act jor the Relief of Simeon Savage, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ey" the United. Patent or Sim- States q" America in Congress assembled, That the letters-patent granted iglgdggvage exr to Simeon Savage, a citizen of the United States, dated the second day of 'March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and extended by the commissioner of patents for seven years from the second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for an improvement in machinery for printing floor oil-cloths, be, and the same is hereby, extended for the term of seven years from the second day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-three ; and the commissioner of patents is hereby directed, upon the presentation of said patent, or a certified copy thereof, to make a certificate upon such patent or certified copy thereof of such extension (the lawful fees being first paid therefor) to the said Simeon Savage; and the commissioner of patents is hereby directed to cause tho same to be entered of record in the patent—ofi‘ice; and the said patent so extended shall have the same effect in law as if originally granted for the term extending to the end of Pr<>viS<>· the term to which it is extended by this act: Provided, however, That such extended patent shall be open to legal inquiry and decision, in the same manner as if issued under the general law regulating the granting of patents. Approved, June 10, 1872. Bic 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLVI. — An Act granting a Pension to J. W. Cronkite. Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Pension to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ln-