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 872 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 900-908. 1886. August 4, 1886. CHAP. 906.-Au act for the relief of John M. McClintock. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United J Oh ¤ N- M¤· States of America in/Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of In- C1é};‘;g‘·0f for a1_ ternal Revenue bc, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to reopen legcd j]]eg;l]]_y ,,,8. and reconsider the claim of John M. McClintock for the refunding of assed taxes to be certain taxes alleged to have been improperly and illegally assessed ¥°°P°¤°d- and collected, namely, for the amount of three thousand six hundred dollars, as claimed by him in the papers now on file in the Treasury Department; and if, upon reopening and rcconsideriug said claim, said Commissioner shall find said taxes, or any parts of the same, to have been illegally or improperly assessed and collected hom said claimant, it is hereby made his duty to audit and ascertain the amount of taxes so illegally and improperly collected from said claimant, deducting, however, any legal unpaid taxes which claimant should have paid, and did not, if any there shall bc, under section one hundred and three of tha vm. 13, p. 275. act of J unc thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “Au act to provide internal revenue to support; the Government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes."And the Secretary of the Apvwpriation Treasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, out of any money 5‘;f8_""'°““* '°“°d in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, tho amount of taxes so found by said Commissioner of Internal Revenue us aforesaid to have been illegally and improperly assessed and collected, to the said John M. McClintock. _ Approved, August 4, 1886. ’ August 4, 1886. CHAP. 90'I.—Au act for the relief of certain employees and others of the twelfth ·-————————- United States light-house district. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United" Emp1m·e“, om, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treastwelffifx Qight- ury bo, and lm hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any b°]';¤° ‘h°*;1°:· of moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighteen cm§gm°:Dmzg1ad thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-tive cents, in bggaugg Omefma. payment of certain claims against the United States Government not tion. heretofore paid because of the dcthlcation and forgcries of John T. Best, late clerk of the engineer of the twelfth light-house district, and due the several claimants as follows : Employees at Point. Conception Light, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars and seventy cents; Miguel Ortcgo, four hundred and seven$-eight dollars aud iburteeu cents; Charles Ashton, two hundred and seventy dollars ; Pigeon Point Light Station, nine hundred and eighty dollars and ninety-uiuc cents ; sundry small bills, one thousand two hundred dollars and ninety-five cents; Martin and P. B. Murphy, ten thousand dollars; O. B. Shaw, one thousand seven hundred and tbrcy-eight dollars and eighty-scve11 cents. Approved, August 4, 1886. Augult 4, $$6- CHAP. 908.-An act granting n pension to Joshua Armstrong. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United J o sh u a Arm· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of tha In- ¤g°¤&~ terior bc, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place ou the pension- “°‘°“‘ roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, tha name of Joshua Armstrong, dependent father of John E. Armstrong, late of Company A, Seventh Regiment United States Cavalry. Approved August 4, 1886. .