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 FOBTY-FOURTH CON GRESS.~ SEss; II. Ch. 196, 197, 198, 199, 200. 1877. 549 CHAP. 196.-An act granting a pension to Laura M. Knowlton. March 3, 1877. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- P<>¤¤i<>¤ to Leurior be, and IS hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension m M· K“°“’l“°“· roll, suhiect to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Laura M. Knowlton, widow of Thomas J. Knowlton, verterinary surgeon Eighth Iowa Cavalry, to take effect from and after passage of this act. Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 197.-An act granting an increase of pension to Laurence P. N. Landrum. {March 3, 1877. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Pension to L. P. rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension- N· Lrnulrrunroll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension-laws, the name of Laurence P. N. Landrum, late private in the Twenty-seventh Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month in lieu of the eight dollars per month heretofore allowed him, as specified in pensioncertificate fifteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven. Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 198.-An act granting a pension to T. B. Murdock MMC], 3, ]817_ · Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- p.»..,.i..,, t., ·r_ r3_ rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pen- 1\i¤¤rd·»cl<. sion rolls, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of T. B. Murdock, late a second lieutenant of Company F. Eighteenth United States Colored Infantry. Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 199.-—An act granting a pension to Martha Irwin, widow of John Irwin. March 3, 1877. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- P,,,,,,,,,,, to Mm, rier be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the tha Irwin. pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pensionlaws, the name of Martha Irwin, widow of John Irwin, alias Samuel Irwin, gunner’s mate, United States steamer Wabasli, to take effect from and after the passage of this act. Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 200.-—An act for the relief of Hans C. Peterson. March 3, 1877. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the lreas- p,,y,,,C,,t to `tlans Ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle (_1—om.—son. the claim of Hans C. Peterson for damages sustained by him by reason of depredations and injuries by certain bands of Sioux Indians, in Minnesota, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to pay to said Hans C. Peterson the sum of two thousand two hundredrand eighty- three dollars and ninetytwo cents in full payment and satisfaction for all losses and damages by him sustained ; and the said sum is hereby appropriated for that purpose. Approved, March 3, 1877.