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 540 FOBTYSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 90, 91, 92, 93. 1880. May 14, 1880. CHAP. 90.—A.n act directing the issue of a duplicate check to Elizabeth D. Thomas, ·————-———-—— a pensioner of the United States. . Whereas, the United States pension agent at Detroit, Michigan, on the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, issued a check, numbered fifty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty- live, drawn on the Second National Bank of Detroit, a United States depository, in favor of Elizabeth D. Thomas, a pensioner residing at Grass Lake, Michigan, for the sum of one thousand tour hundred and twenty-four dol]ar,sf and seventy cents, in payment of pension then due said Elizabeth D. homas· an Whereas said check was lost while being transmitted by mail from Detroit to said pensioner at Grass Lake and has not since been found or paid- Therefore Be it bnacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Elizabeth D. States of America in Congress assembled, That the pension agent at De- Th°m**?· troit Michigan, be and he is hereby instructed to issue duplicate check £;‘,££°°‘t°°h°°k` numbered, fifty-nine thousand tour hundred and twenty-five, for fourteen hundred and twentyfour dollars and seventy cents in favor of Elizabeth D. Thomas, for one lost in the mail May twenty-ninth, eight een hundred and seventy-nine: Provided, That said Elizabeth D. Thomas shall iirst execute a bond with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury to hold the United States harmless against the double payment of said check. Approved, May 14, 1880. Ma 14 1880, CHAP. 91.-An act for the relief of George V. Hebb. y I Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United George V. Hebb, States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting offi- P**5’m°”* *°· cers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to audit the claim of George V. Hebb, late captain and assistant quartermaster in Mexico, _ _ for any balance of pay that may be found due him as an officer, and to pay APPf°P¤¤¤°¤· the amount due in full settlement of the same; and a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated out of any money not otherwise appropriated by law to pay the same, not to exceed the sum of one hundred and thirty- six li ll a (1 fifty cents o ars n . Approved, May 14, 1880. May 14, 1880. CHAP. 92.-An act for the relief of Peter Meagher. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Pew Meaglwr, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- F’“X“‘°$ mm ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Peter PP P ’ Meagher, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and seventy dollars for labor performed in unloading coal from the schooners “My Rover", **Althea”, and ** J onathan May ", and the bark “David G. Wilson ”, at Long Key, Tortugas, Florida, in full compensation for the services of himself, and of Louis Helt, Victor giewmph,dVV)1klhaim l\\_%u1l$1nsman, James Riley, Edward F. Riley, F. c ar s, an ar es er. Approved, May 14., 1880. A May 14, 1880, CHAP. 98.- An act granting]; pon§iox£odPe1€r K.1Moi·ga¤, private in the war of """*""*·—;···· Big GOD. 1111 6 8.D twe VG. Bc it enacted_ by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 11;¤t¤rK·M¤rg¤¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte °“°‘°”· I‘10I‘ be, and he IS hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pensionroll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the