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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 18, 23, 24. 1886. 683 CHAP. 18.--An act for the relief of Frances E. Stewart, administratrix of Michael Mar. 11, 1886. S. Stewart, deceased. ———————————-— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Gongress assembled, That the Secretary of the Fra.¤cesE.Stew. Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Frances mntsdnrinistrsaarix E. Stewart, administratrix of Michael S. Stewart, deceased, the sum of °fm°h°°1S·S*°W· three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents, which ***;:3 mano shall be in full of all balances due the estate of said Michael S. Stewart, y ' deceased, growing out of a contract made on or about the tenth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four, between the said Michael S. Stewart and Captain George B. Hibbard, then assistant qnartermaster at Nashville, Tennessee, by which the said Michael S. Stewart agreed to cut and deliver ten thousand cords of wood at the Cumberland River, for the use of the Army, and so forth. Approved, March 11, 1886. CHAP. 23.-An act for the relief of B. Jennings. yn_ 19, 1g_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembkd, That the sum of three thou- B.Jemungs. sand one hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-six cents be, and the P*Y¤°¤* *·°· same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay B. Jennings, late register of the landomce of the United States at Oregon City, to reimburse said Jennings for money expended by him as said register, between the ilrst day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and December thirty-iirst, eighteen hundred and sixty, for additional clerical services and extraordinary expenses during said period, not heretofore allowed or paid. _ Approved, March 19, 1886. CHAP. 24.-A.n act granting a pension tollsry B. Holmes. I|r.19, 13. Whereas a bill (Senate twenty-six hundred and seven) was passed by Preamble. both Houses of the Forty-eighth Congress, second session, and approved by the President on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-tive, granting a pension to Mary B. Holmes, the widow of John W. Holmes; and Whereas by an error in the name of the said John W. Holmes (lwlho was in said act styled “Henry ’ W. Holmes) the said Mary B. Ho es was precluded from obtaining such pension as granted in said act: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to p ace on the pension·roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mary B. Holmes, widow of John W. Holmes, late a Mu-;;B.Ho1me•. lieutenant of Company F, Seventy-second Regiment New York Volun- P•¤•*°°· teers, and allow her the same pension drawn by her husband during his life, to take effect from the date of the approval of the aforesaid act by the President, on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. S1:0. 2. That the act granting a pension to Mary B. Holmes, approved Vol. 23, oh. ses, March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-tive, is hereby repealed. 1¤·673»¤1>¤•·I¤¤- Approved, March 19, 1886.