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 "ORTY-FII? TH CONGRESS. Sess. Ill. C11. 196, 197. 198, 199. 1869. 483 And whereas the said award has been ratitied and confirmed by the legislatures of the States of Virginia and Maryland respectively: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of the Con- Consent or Congress of the United States is hereby given to the said agreement or award, greasand to each and every part and article thereof: Provided, That nothing 1*»·oi·iso. therein contained shall be construed to impair or in any manner aiiect any right of jurisdiction of the United States in and over the islands and waters which form the subject of the said agreement or award. Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 197.-An act granting jurisdiction and authority to the Court of Claims in Mme]; 3, 1879, the case of the schooner Don Pedro. —————— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim or claims of the Schoon e ¤— D o n legal or equitable owners or claimants of the schooner Don Pedro, her TWP0- cargo, freight, and personal effects contained in her, alleged to have Claim referred been damaged, injured and sunk by collision with the United States *0 Cmlft <*i'Cl¤i¤¤¤- revenue cutter U. S. Grant, on or aboutthe eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, be referred to the Court of Claims, with jurisdiction and authority to hear and determine the same to judgment, with right of appeal, as in other cases: Provided, That no suit shall be I’r·v··i—¤¤- brought under the provisions of this act after six months from the date of the passage thereof. Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 198.-An act for the relief of certain pensioners. March 3, 1879. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all pensioners now on the Pensions. pension-rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, for amputation of 1 Ram fb? 19**8 of either leg at the hip joint, shall receive a pension at the rate of thirty- °g nt 1"p~'°'"t‘ seven dollars and fifty cents per month from the date of the approval of this act. Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 199.-An act donating four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-balls to March 3, I37g_ "Mononga.he1a Cemetery", to be placed in a lot held as a free burial-ground for ex- —;—-——- soldiers, sailors, and marines, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, Condemned canand he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver to the “Mononga- ¤<>¤» GW _ hela Cemetery", Monongahela City, \Vashington County, Pennsylvania, C;;°B§;§°“g“1‘°l* fo1u· condemned cannon, to be placed in a lot in said cemetery held by a ` post of the Grand Army of the Republic as a free burial-groimd for exsoldiers, sailors, and marines who have been honorably discharged from the United States service. Sec. 2. That said “Mouongahela Cemetery", a body corporate in law, shall receipt for said condemned cannon and cannon—balls. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of \Var be authorized and directed to deliver f1` o P <> n t i n c , to the city of Pontiac, Michigan, six condemned cannon for a monument M‘°l‘· to Major-General lsrael P. Richardson and other Union soldiers buried in the cemetery in the city of Pontiac, Michigan. Sec. 4. That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to To Des Moines, deliver to the city of Des Moines, Iowa, four condemned carriages and I°“'“- cannon, to be placed in the cemetery around the monument erected to