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 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 456-461. 1872. 701 terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension J. W. Cronkite. roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of J. W. Cronkite, late acting lieutenant-colonel, one hundred and twenty-first regiment New York volunteers, and to pay him a pension as a lieutenant-colonel in lieu of his pension as a major. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLVII. —An Act jbr the_Relie/' of Elbridge Gerry. June jg, 1g7g_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _- States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, p,,ym_.mtmEl_ appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury of the United States not bridge Gerry- otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen thousand and two hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to Elbridge Gerry, in full compensation for valuable services rendered the government in eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for all claims for Indian depredations up to the date of the passage of this act. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLVIII.—·An Act granting a Pension to L. Adelia Foster. J-um, 10, 1872 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United W States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- pe,,S,0,,wL_ terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pen- Adc1inFost¤r· sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of L. Adelia Foster, widow of George Foster, late acting major of the sixty-seventh regiment New York volunteers, and to pay her a pension as the widow of a major, in lien of the pension of the widow of a captain which she is now receiving. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLIX. —-An Act for the Relief of Frederick P. Dimpfel. June 10, 187% Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the patent heretofore Patent of Fwd_ granted Frederick P. Dimpfel, on the sixteenth of July, eighteen hundred erick P. Dimpfel and fifty, for an improvement in steam·boilers, be, and the same is hereby, °’“““d°d· extended for seven years from and after the sixteenth of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one: Provided, That all persons that have engaged pm,,i,,,_ in the use or manufacture of said invention, since the expiration of said patent, shall be authorized to continue the same notwithstanding the passage of this act. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLX.-An Act for the Relief of Harriet Spring, the Heir of Captain June 10, 1872. Williams Barker, deceased. —'"""""' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tlae United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Harriet Spring, of Waterville, Maine, the heir of Captain lVilliams Barker, of HP¤¥*;¤§¤*!° Waterville, Maine, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- aing Pm1g' priated, the half-pay of a captain from the end of the revolutionary war to the death of Captain Barker, February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and nineteen; and that a warrant be issued to the said Harriet Spring for such bounty-land as she, in virtue of the services of the said Captain Vililliams Barker, deceased, as a private soldier in said war is entitled to receive. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLXI. -— An Act to authorize the Payment of Bounty to Ann McCarthy. Jung 10, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Second Auditor of Bountycertm-