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 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 80, 81, 85. 1873. 719 CHAP. LXXX. -—An Act granting a Pension to Mary H. Bartlett. Jan. 28, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Pension to Mary rigr be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pen- H· B“’u°**· sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mary II. Bartlett, widow of E. W. Bartlett, late 'acting steersman on the United States steam—ram “Monarch " of the Mississippi marine brigade. APPROVED, January 28, 1873. CHAP. LXXXl.—An Actjor the ReliefofMary Love. Jan. 28, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives q" the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Payment to nry is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Mary Love, of Roan Mm? L°V°· connty, Tennessee, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars, for services in carrying despatches from General Grant to General Burnside, at Knoxville, Tennessee, through the confederate lines. J. G. BLAIN E, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SCHUYLER. COLFAX, Vice—President of the United States and President of the Senate. Received by the President January 16, 1873. [Nora BY THE DEPARTMENT or STATE. —The foregoing act having 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 States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. LXXXV.—An Act for the Relief if Beverly B. Bolts, Rosalie S. Lewis, Isa- Jan. 31, 1873. bella 1|lcLean Lewis, and Mary; Minor Hoxsey, Children and Heirs at Law of John JIL _;""` Botts, deceased. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States if America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Payment to ury be, and he is hereby, directed and required to pay, from any moneys ;l{lld’°;*l’**“d f, in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to the J3; i,[_8i;“(,t€S_ above-enumerated children and heirs at law of John M. Botts, deceased, late of Culpepper county, in the State of Virginia, the sum of one thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars and sixteen cents; which sum, when paid, shall be in full satisfaction of all claims, on the part of the said heirs at law against the United States, for injuries done or committed by the troops of the United States to the land of said Betts, the timber, fences, and other fixtures, thereon, done to his personal property during the late war of the rebellion; the intent and purpose of this act being that the sum herein named was the just balance due the said John Minor Botts in his lifetime, for all his losses sustained by the action of the Union troops, after deducting the sum of fourteen thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars a11d sixty-eight cents, paid him,’about the first of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, by the Quartorrnastefs department. J. G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Received by the President January 20, 1873. [Norm BY THE DiC1’AI{l`)l1<)NZl` or S1*ATic.— The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and