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 526 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHs. 15, 22, 29, 30. 1884. June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby authorized to hear and determine the said suit; and in ascertaining the damages sustained by the plaintiis, the court is directed to take IDU) consideration the advantages, if any, to the said square numbered seven hundred and thirty-six, resulting from the change of grade and regrading aforesaid. It shall be the duty of the attorney for the District to defend the said suit, and each party shall have the right to appeal for a final decision in such case to the Supreme Court of the United States, according to the existing rules of practice in said court. Appropriation. Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, ‘ out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the said plaintiifs such sum as the Court of Claims may adjudge to be due them, or any or either of them, one-half of which sum shall be chargeable to the revenue derived from taxation within the District of Col nmbia. Approved, March 22d, 1884. April 10, 1884. CHAI'. 22.-An act for the relief of James H. Woodard. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Jam¤¤H~ Wood- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Paymastcr·Geuera1 of °'¥,· t to the Army is hereby ordered to pay to James H. Woodard, late udutant °Y'"°"of the One hundred and twenty-eighth Regiment of Indiana olunteer Infantry, the pay and allowances of an adjutant of infant from the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-fourr{o the twentysecond day June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Rayment shall be made out of the appropriation for the Army for the present year. Approved, April 10, 1884. April $3, 1$4. CHAP. 29.-·An act for the relief of Sallie A. Spence. Be it enacted by the Senate andHoue ¢{h of the Unitd Sallie A. Spence. States of America in 0'ongresa assembled, atthe Secretary of theTreas- P°Y"’°”* *°· ury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to Sallie A Spence one hundred dollars, for rent of a building at Murfreesborou h,Tennessee, used and occupied as a hospital, under contract with tie proper military officers, during July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Approved, April 23, 1884. ANH m ly CHAP. 30.-An act for the relief of Millie E. Hays, widow of John Hays, deceased. Be it esactedbg the Senate and House of Representation of the United anne 1:. Hays. States of America on Oongresc assembled, That the proper otllcers of the B¤¤°*'°f· Interior Department be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to prepare and cause to be issued and delivered to Millie E Hays, the widow of J ohn Hays, deceased, a bounty-land warrant for eighty acres of land, upon the surrender of bounty-land warrant numbered twenty- six thousand four hundred and fifty-four, issued under the act of Con- 9 stat., sm. gress of Septembertwenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ilfty, in such form that the same can be located by said Millie E. Hays, or assigned ' and transferred by her and located by her assignee as other landwarrants are located upon the public lands. Approved, April 26, 1884.