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 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 242, 243, 244. 1876. 47 ]_ gence of said Buckner: Provided, That the said Buckner shall assign FP¤Vi¤<>· and transfer to the United States, and for their benefit, any bond or other security, lien by judgment, or otherwise, against the said Jackson or others, and the right to prosecute all suit or suits thereon or for the enibrcement thereof, and the exclusive benefit of all such shall inure to the United States. MILTON SAYLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore. T. W. FERRY President of the Senate pro tempore. Received by the President July 19, 1876. [NoTE BY THE DEPARTMENT on 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. 243.-An act making an appropriation to pay the claim of Butler, Miller and July 29» 1876 Company. "t';""` _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of seven thousand Payment to Buttwo hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents be, and 1""’M‘u°"&C°· the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Butler, Miller and Company, for cotton taken at Nashville, Tennessee, in eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by the United States Army, and in full satisfaction and discharge of the claim of said Butler, Miller and Company,for such cotton. MILTON SAYLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore T. W. FERRY President of the Senate pro tempore Received by thePresident July 19, 1876. [NoTE 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. 244.-·An act for the relief of James W. Love, postmaster at Patriot Indiana. July 29, 1876. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Creditin money- ury be, and hereby is, directed to place to the credit of the Post Otlioe ¤i<l<=¤‘ ¤¤¤¤¤¤t of fund, on money order account, the sum of twenty-six dollars; and the J"““°*’ W· L°"°· Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department is directed to credit James W. Love, postmaster at Patriot, Indiana, in his account as such postmaster, twenty-six dollars, being for the loss of a like sum, money-order funds, remitted by him to the post-office at Cincinnati for deposit, and destroyed while enroute by the burning of the mail-boat “ Pat Rogers,” on the Ohio River, August fifth, eighteen hundred and seventyiour. MILTON SAYLER, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore. T. W. FERRY President of the Senate pro tempore. Received by the President July 19, 1876. [NoTE BY THE DEPARTMENT on STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval,