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 FOILTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 134-1358. 1879. 605 United States and included within the military reservation at Cape Disappointment, in \Vashington Territory; this to be in full of all claims for compensation and damages arising out of the appropriation of petitioner’s property by the United States. Approved, March 1, 1879. CHAP. 135.-—An act for the relief of Second Lieutenant Thomas T. Knox, regimen- March 1, 1879. tal quartermaster First Cavalry. j———;- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress aseemblcd, That the proper accounting- T. T. Knox. oflicers in the Quartermastens Department of the United States Army Credit i¤ ncbe, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow Second Lieuten- "°““t“·· ant Thomas T. Knox, regimental quartermaster First Cavalry United States Army, a credit upon settlement of his accounts for the sum of one hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-two cents, the amount claimed to have been stolen from his safe, and being moneys received by him for sale of subsistence stores. Approved, March 1, 1879. CHAP. 136.-An act granting relief to John T. Neale, an employee of the Provost- March 1, 1879. Marshal-Gencral’s Department in eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for injuries sus- ——————-— tained in the line of his duties. 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- J. T.Nea1e. ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay unto John T. P¤5’m¤¤t *0- Neale, late an employee of Brigadier-General Andrew Porter, provostmarshal of the Disti·ict of Columbia, (by whom said John T. Neale was assigned to duty as a special detective policcoflicer, and sustained an injury while engaged in said service, which resulted in making him a cripple for life,) out of any moneys in the public treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal in amount to that which he would have been entitled to had said John T. Neale been an enlisted man in the Army, for a permanent specific disability, to wit, the loss of one leg below the knee-joint; and that said amount be computed in accordance with the present allowance for such disability, to date from the eleventh day of Septc1nbe1·, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved, March 1, 1879. CHAP. 13'l.—·An act for the relief of Josephine C. Owen, postmaster at Randolph, March 1, 1879. New York. www- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Itepresentatires of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- J ¤¤¤1>h1¤<> C- ury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the O‘;;‘;,}mDt to Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to J osephinc C. Owen, postmaster ' at Randolph, in the State of New York, the sum of eight hundred and fifteen dollars, to reimburse her for the loss of postage-stamps and inoncy belonging to said post-office, which were stolen from the vault of the bank in Randolph, where they had been deposited for sate-keeping, without negligence on the part of the said postmaster. Approved, March 1, 1879. CHAP. 138.-—-An act for the relief of \Villiam F. \Vhecler. March 1, 1879. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting- \Y.F.\Vhq6l+>f· officers of the Treasury, in adjusting accounts for expenses of courts ren- 0031;; mt m “°°