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 FORTY-SECON D CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 373-376. 1873. 7 73 mental, or acting brigade, division, or post quartermaster, or as regimental, or acting brigade, division, or post commissary of subsistence, which were burned or otherwise destroyed by the rebel forces at McMinnville, Tennessee, on or about the second day of October, anno Domiui eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in such measure as such credit or relief shall appear to such accounting officers, upon examination, to be justified Approved, Merch 3, 1873. HAP. CCCLXXIII. ——An Act or the Relie 0 B. ., e ie C second Battalion sf; Months' Pfnriéyluangi gmjgewgt MWL uwmnt Bc it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the (batted States of America., in Congress assembled, That the paymaster-general Payment to B._ be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to B. F. Speedy, late F- SP“dY· iirst lieutenant of company G, second battalion six months' Pennsylvania volunteers, the pay of 2. first lieutenant of intimtry from the ninth day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to the twenty-first da.y_0f January, anno llomini eighteen hundred and sixty-four. A1>1>R0vED, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXXIV. —-An Actjbr the Relief of P. W. Standq/ér. Much 3, 1373, Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting 0Hi- Cl¤i¤¤ ¢>*` P- W- cer of the United States be authorized and directed to audit and allow the Eflzgxger °° b° claim of P. W. Standefer, for services rendered as 2. telegraph operator ` by direction of the military authorities of the United States in the war of the rebellion, for a, period not exceeding six months, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That it shall be Pmviso. satisfactorily proved that such services were actually rendered. Am-rqovnn, March 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXXV.-An Act for the Reliq`ey".]Z W. Holliday. March 8, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the paymaster-general of Yglnéniw ·Y· the army be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to J. W. Holliday, late of W' °md°y’ company B, eighth regiment of lowa volunteer cavalry, the pay and allowances of a second lieutenant of cavalry, from the twenty-sec0nd day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to the date of his muster—0ut of the service, deducting whatever psy he received as an enlisted man during such period, and that such payment shall be made out of any money appropriated for pay of the army. Approved, Merch 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCLXXVI. -An Act for the Re/{gf of William E. Ward. March Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of xtpplicsrtion of patents be, and he is hereby, authorized to grant :1 rehearing of the §r’E;{’Q;‘n;§});"v(‘,l'd application of William E. Wsi·d for the extension of let.ters·patent mm.; w bg m- granted to him on the seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty— h¢¤Fdsix, " for improvement in machinery for making nuts," and' he is hereby authorized to revive and extend the said letters-patent for the further term of seven years from and after the seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy, notwithstanding the original term for which letterspatent were granted had expired, and the said petentee had petentedlthe said invention in foreign countries, and such foreign patents had ertpired before the seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy, if in his judgment the said patenbee was the original inventor of the invention described in the said letters-patent, and the patentee has failed, without