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 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. [1. (Ill. 135, 135, 137, 138. 1877. 5l5 CHAP. 135.-An act for the relief of the legal representatives of Zachariah B. March 3, 1877. Washburn deceased. _ ———-—————— Whereas, on the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and Preamble. thirty-six, the said Zachariah B. Washburn did enter and purchase, of the proper officers, the west part of the northeast fractional quarter of section twenty-four, in township eighteen north, of range eleven west, of the second principal meridian, in the district of public lands then subject to sale at Danville in the State of Illinois, and did thereupon receive a certificate of purchase therefor in which the said land was erroneously described as the northwest fractional quarter of said section twenty-four, and also a patent therefor was afterward issued to the said Washburn, in which the said lot of land was also erroneously described as aforesaid: Therefore, ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of the Ln,ud ,,,,,m,t to General Land-Ofiice issue to the legal representatives of the said Zach- Zachariah B.Wzish- ` ariah B. Washburn a patent for the said west part of the northeast bum quarter of said section twenty-four, in the township and range aforesaid, and that the preamble above herein be recited in said patent Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 136.-——A¤ act for the relief of A. W.  check rior be, and he is hereby, instructed to direct the pension agent at *0 A- W- P1Y‘““l°· Wheeling, West Virginia, to issue duplfeate check numbered eighteen · thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, for one thousand and fifty-two dollars, in favor of A. W. Plymale, for one lost in the mail on or about July tirst eighteen hundred and seventy-six: Provided, That the Secre- Provisos. tary of the Interior be satisfied that the same has not been paid: And provided further, That said A. W. Plymale shall first execute a bond, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, to hold the United States harmless against the double payment of such check. , Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 1.3*7.-An act for the relief of W. S. McComb, of the State of Georgia. March 3, 1877. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting Peymwt to W- officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to audit and S· M°C°“‘b· settle the claim of W. S. McCoinb, of the State of Georgia, for furnishing stable-room for Government animals, after the suppression of hostilities in the late war, and for which a voucher, new on nle in the Treasury Department, was given; and to allow him the sum of one hundred and ninety-five dollars, the amount named in the said voucher ; and an amount sunicient to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money not otherwise appropriated by law. Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 138.—An act for the relief of John J. Anderson, surviving copartner of the March 3, 1877. firm of Anderson and White. -—-———-———-······‘ Br it enacted by the Senate and House of Rmresentatives of the United ' States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- J 1;=¤»y{u${¤;**>·l<>l¤¤¤ ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any ·‘ “"·‘°‘ "· rnoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to John J. Anderson,