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 FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I C11. 33, 34, 37, 38. 1874. 53] United States, in bonded cars at Sterling, Illinois, in tmnsitu for export to Buenos Ayres, in South America, on or about the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to cancel such bonds as may have been given for the egcportation of the alcohol so destroyed, provided bonding certificates shall have been produced showing the bonding as required by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, of all alcohol or distilled spirits except said fifty barrels destroyed by iire included in said bonds. Approved, February 21, 1874. _ CHAP. 84.-An act iviu the consent of Con css to the ucce tance b James. , . ggcggxuoh, sx wmani omder in the United Stags Navy, of a presgnt from ghe King y. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress Acceptance of be, and hereby is, granted to James McDonnell, a warrant offlcer in the ;‘)°°‘m by ·'*“”°¤ M°· Navy of the United States, to accept from the King of ltaly, a silver °"“°u “u°w"d‘ medal, for assistance rendered on the twenty-fifth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in the port of Callao, Peru, to the Italian morchaut vessel "Delaide." Approved, February 21, 1874. CHAP. 3'7.—Au act for the relief of Robert N. McMillan, late collector of customs FGI)- 94, 1874- and superintendent of lights for the district of Techo, in tho State of Louisiana. "it B0 it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting ofli- _0remu in account cers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed {** R°b°**· N·M¤W*· to adjust and settle the account of Robert N. McMillan, late collector “"‘ of customs and superintendent of lights for the district of Teche, in the _ State of Louisiana, and allow him the sum of seven hundred and six dollars and hfty-six emits, being the amount paid for salaries of keepers and assistant keepers of light-houses for the first quarter of the your eighteen hundred and sixty-one. ` Approved, February 24, 1874. CHAP. 38.-An act for the relief of Colonial Dn.nio1McC1ux·c, assistant pn.ymu.ater— Feb. 24, 1874. g0U0l‘£1». Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims of Daniel Claims of Daniel McClure, assistant paymaster-general, for credits on differences in his f’[g;;“:ftf‘1*L°a°‘*'*2 accounts, as paymaster under his official bond, dated March second, 0% Claim: ° °" eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, shall be, and are hereby, referred to the Court of Claims, with jurisdiction to bear and determine said claims. And if the said court shall be satisfied from the evidence that any of the moneys charged to him were not in fact received by him, or that other just and equitable grounds exist for credits claimed -by him, it shall make a decree setting forth the amount to which the said McClure shall be entitled to receive credit; upon which the proper accounting officers of the Treasury shall allow him the amount so decreed as a credit in the settlement of his said accounts: Provided, That the tesbi- Pmvise. mony of said McClure shall be received in his own behalf by said court; and until the determination of the said cause, the iiual adjustment of his said accounts is suspended; and provided jherther, that an appeal Proviso. shall be allowed to either party as in other cases. Approved, February 24, 1874.