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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, ` Passed at the second session, whcbh was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the Désirict of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth. day of December, 1886, and zcazradjourned without day on Thursday, the third day of March, 1887. Gnovmz CLEVELAND, President; J 01m SHERMAN, President of tho Senate pro lmnpofc, who acted as such until Saturday, the twenty-sixth day of February, when J OHN J. INGALLS was elected President of the Senate pro tcmporc, in place of Jomv SHERMAN, resigned; J om: G. CARLISLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 1. —Au act to provide for the adjustment of matters connected with certain Dec. 17, 1886. judicial proceedings in Pennsylvania in which tha United States W88 a party. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Staten of America in_Oongresa assembled, That; the Attorney-General is WiUi¤¤1 Wardlmeby authorized and directed tu ascertain what sum, if any, is a fair P"Y'“°“° “" equivalent for services rendered by \Vil1ia»m Wanl in the court of c0m· mon pleas of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in defending certain attachments and suits peudin g therein against the United States rcvcuncmnrinc steamer William H. Seward ; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said William Ward, out uf any moneys in the Treasury uot otherwise appropriated, such sum as the Atmmcy-General shall certify to be a fair equivalent for the said ‘ services: Provided, That the amount allowed shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. Approved, December 17, 1886. CHAP. 6. An act for the relief of Theodore W. Tnllmsdgo. Dec. 20, I*8L Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Unc United Smtes of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Theodore W. Interior of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized and directed TT¤¤•¤¤•·d i - to issue and deliver to Theodore \V. Tallmadgc land-scrip by which the mc:':: “° V said Theodore W. Tallmadge, or his assigns, upon the presentation ' thereof to the proper oillcers of the Land Department shall be entitled to enter one hundred and sixty acres of the surveyed puulic lands of the United States, subject to military bouncy-land warrant location, not mineral or otherwise appropriated, gramtccl to him in lieu of bounty- land warrant numbered sixty-uiuc thousand six handed and ilffy-cme, misappropriatcd by an employee of the United States land officc at Stevens’ Point, Wisconsinn. Approved. December 20, 1886. CHAP. 10.--An act for the relief of Henry Martin. Dec. 2%, 1986. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ` States of America in Congress assembled, That Henry Martin, ofS8W3l'(]. Henry Margin. County, Nebraska, or his legal representatives, may select, within one ucf£°":t{* *25312; year from the passage of this act, and shall be allowed a patent for a md in Nd,§mk, szmyr L- VOL xxxv- 5©» (88*)