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 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 475-479. 1872. 705 ury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to George W. George W. Sturtevant, of Dodge county, Wisconsin, one hundred dollars, out of any S*¤**°V¤·¤*- money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full settlement of all claims on his behalf growing out of money paid by said Sturtevant to the United States receiver of the Milwaukee land-ofiice by mistake. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLXXVI. —-An Act for the Reliq"of Benjamin WZ Reynolds. June 10, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rwresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand Allowance to one hundred and seventy-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, allowed g°”·l*‘TJ” W- to Benjamin W. Reynolds, late receiver of the land-office at Saint Croix gym s` Falls, Wisconsin, for the money necessarily paid out and expended by said Benjamin NV. Reynolds, in the payment of clerks necessarily employed in said land-office, between the sixteenth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the Efteenth day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four., Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, au- Payméntw thorized and directed to pay said Benjannn W. Reynolds two thousand E‘;;J,;3Q';_lv' one hundred and seventy-five dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLXXVII. —An Act for the Relief of Martin P. Hardin, of Pontotoc County, Juno 10, 1872- Mississippi. Bc it enacted by the Senate and Phase y` Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid Martin P. Pnymentto Hardin, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the Iéamu P' H'"' sum of two hundred dollars and seventy-three cents, which sum was paid- ` by said Martin P. Hardin for the northeast of qnartersection sixteen, township nine, range five east of the meridian line of the Chickasaw cession, in the State of Mississippi, the title to which tract of land has been adjudged by a competent tribunal not to have been in the United States at the time of said sale. Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDLXXVIII. —- An Act for the Relief of W. W. Gnfin. June 10, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and [base of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting Payment to officers of the treasury are hereby required to audit and pay to W. W. W· W· Guam Griiiin, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars for services rendered as commissioner under the laws of the United States. Approved, June 10, 187:2. CHAP. CDLXXIX. -·An Actjbr the Reliefq”Eliza B. Andersen, June 10.1872- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Payment to Ury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury E:? B· A”d°" not otherwise appropriated, to Eliza B. Anderson, widow of the late Major ` General Robert Anderson, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in grateful recognition of that singular iidelity to public duty which inspired said Robert Anderson when a major in the United States army, on the twenty- sixth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty, without authority from the President, and in defiance of the wishes of the Secretary of War, to assume the grave responsibility of transferring his small command from von. xvu. Paw.- 45