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 608 FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. It Ch. 452, 492, 493, 494, 495. 1874, resentatives passed February 15th 1869, and the sum of Fifteen hundred dollars, which was paid to him by order of the Committee of Accounts, on the ilfth day of April 1869. . Approved, June 22, 1874. June 23 1874. CHAP. 492.-An not for the relief of the heirs at law of William C. Brashear, an -—-——-··*—···· oilloer of the Texas navy. Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 1,,,},,,,,,,,, ,0 Wn_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasliam 0. Brasnearm ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any heirs. money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,_to the heirs at law _ {B9? °**é,}g1» 91% of William C. Brashear the amount of leave-pay per annum, from the `° ’ "’ P'date of the annexation of the republic of Texas to the date of the de mise of said William C. Brashear, it being the rate and pay to which he, the said Williztm C. Brashear, would have been entitled as an ollieer of the Texas navy under the twelfth section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and dfty-eight," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, in the event he had lived to the passage of said act. Approved, June 23, 1874. June 23, 1874. CHAP. 493.-An act for the relief of Burke and Kunkel. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Pa mwtmgurkc of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and ;§u,,k,,1_ and be is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Burke and Kunkel, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, three thousand eight hundred' and forty-nine dollars, being the amount of pig iron taken by the agent of the Treasury Department by mistake as Confederate property, July, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and being the net proceeds which was covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the captured and abandoned property fund. , . · Approved, June 23, 1874. CHAP. 494.-—An not to amend an not entitled "Au act to incorporate the trustees of the Female Orphan Asylum in Gougohown,. and the Washington City Orphan _ June 23, 1874. Asylum, m the District o Columbia," approved May 24. 1898. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Fgmm 0,,,,,,,,, States of America in Congress assembled, That section three of an act Asylum in George- entitled “An act to incorporate the trustees of the Female Orphan town, ¤pdW¤¤1¤i¤g- Asylum, in Georgetown, and the Washiugton‘City Orphan Asylum, in X;“1u€,; " 7 O"Ph’"" the District of Columbia," approved May twenty-fourth, eighteen hun- {,,,6,, ,1 m,,,,,, ofdred and twenty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to act. authorize the said corporations or either of 'them, to increase the annual May 24, 1§>`28,_ ch- income of property acquired or to be acquired byeither of said corpora- 88¤93·"°1·"·P··‘8r tions to a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars per annum. Approved, June 23, 1874. . _],,,,,, 23, 1874_ CHAP. 495.-An act to legalize thewmnstker of Reuben M. Pratt, as second lieu- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bepresentctives'of the United Dau or muster of States of America in Congress assembled, That the Sccretary_of_ War be, Re¤b¤¤_M· Pratt M and he is hereby authorized and directed to place the name of Reuben “°°"“d h°“"°““”"· M. Pratt on the rolls of Company “H," Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Corps Infantry, as a. second lieutenant, and his muster into