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 606 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 138-142. 1879. dered hy William F. Yilheeler, United States marshal for the Territory of Montana, be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow credit for the amount of vouchers ior disbursements destroyed by fire 111 the oilnce of _ said marshal, at Ilelena, on the ninth of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-four; said allowance not to exceed the sum of five thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars: Provided, That before credit be given, the marshal shall furnish proof of his losses to the satismction ot said accounting-officers. — Approved, March 1, 1879. March 1, 1879. CHAP. 139.—An act granting a. pension to Mary E. Pauley. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United tiary  Pauley. States of Ameri ea. in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior Pension. be, and he is hereby. authorized and directed to place on the pensionroll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension-laws, the name of Mary E. Pauley, widow of James Pauley, late private in Regiment New York State Volunteer Infantry Approved, March 1, 1879. March 1, 1879. CHAP. 140.-An act for the relief of Ann Annis, widow of Harvey Annis, late second _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Ami A¤¤¤¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- P“Y'“°“t t°‘ ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Ann Annis, widow of Harvey Annis, late second lieutenant Company G, Fiftyfirst Regiment of United States Colored Infantry, the sum of two hundred and thirty- five dollars for arrears of pay due said Harvey Annis as said second lieutenant, from February twenty-third eighteen hundred and sixty-tive, to April twentyseventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive. Approved, March 1, 1879. March l, 1879- CHAP. 141.—An act for the relief of Henry M. Meade, late paymaster in the United www; States Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United H-_}`} M<‘¤§l¢· States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting-officers of COS,:,; *1* t 1 “ “°' the United States Treasury Department be, and are hereby, authorized ` to adjust the accounts of Henry M. Meade, late a paymaster in the United States Navy, and credit him with the sum of twenty-five hundred and forty-tive dollars and twenty-two cents, for unavoidable losses and checkagcs sustained by him in the legitimate performance of his duties as paymaster in the United States Navy, from eighteen hundred and sixty-two to eighteen hundred and seventy-two, which sum stands now charged against him at the United States Treasury Department. Approved, March 1, 1879. March 1, 1879. CHAP. 142.-An act granting a pension to Henry Brown, late a private in Company wv; C, Ono hundred and twenty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of .Representatires of the United Henry Brown. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- P¢¤S¤<>¤· rior be, and he is, hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the name of Henry Brown, late a. private in Company C, of the One hundred and twenty-third Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, and pay him a pension irom and after the passage of this act. Approved, March 1, 1879.
 * 7**** lieutenant Company G, Fifty-first Regiment United States Colored Infantry.