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 726 FO RTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 117-119, 121. 1873. sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Abigail Chaplin, who was the widow of Josiah Snelling, junior, late a colonel in the United States army, to take effect from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy. Approved, February 5, 1873. Feb. 5, 1873. CHAP. CXVII. — An Act granting a Pension to Robert G. Wilson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ig" Representatives of the United P¤¤Si<>¤ ¤<>_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte. g31W" G' Wu' rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pen. sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Robert G. NVilson, late a private in company A, seventy-ninth regiment New York volunteers, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, in lieu of the pension now held and enjoyed by him. ` Approved, February 5, 1873. Fei, 5,, 1g7g_ CHAP. CXVIH. —— An Act granting a Pension to Zilary A. Mz'ller, 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 Inte- M’”Y A· Mmm`- rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mary A. Miller, mother of Moses G. Miller, late a private in company F, eighty-seventh New York volunteers. Approved, February 5, 1873. Feb. 6, 1873. CHAP. CXIX. —An Act jbr the Relief of George kber. Be it enactedbg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United p,,,,,,,,,, to States if America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Gmac Heber- ury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to George Reber, of Sandusky, Ohio, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifteen cents, in full for damages to his building in said city of Sandusky, occasioned by the quartering therein of United States soldiers, from the fifteenth day of January to the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. J. G. BLAINE, Speaker of the Abuse of Representatives. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Received by the President January 25, 1873. [Norm BY rms 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.] Feb. 7, 1873. CHAP. CXXI.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of {lie Treasury to refund certain 5 "`_—"""‘ Zlfoneys to James O. P. Burnside. I 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- ·g1';f;£· P- ury be, and he is hereby, empowered and directed, out of any money not i ` otherwise appropriated by law, to pay to James O. P. Burnside the sum 13 of five thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars, being the one-fourth i part of the proceeds of two lots of cotton sold in New York, in the year i eighteen hundred and sixty-tive, by H. A. Risley, supervising special 2 agent of the United States treasury; said cotton having been purchased by the said James O. P. Burnside, in the State of North Carolina, for