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 1060 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 240, 241, 254, 256. 1888. V my 9, 1888. CHAP. 24-0.-An act for the relief of the Agricultural and Mechanical College W of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatz`res of the MA{;i9]¤}*é¤*i,¤l¤¤<} United States o{ America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Atfmziiiila 0 °g°° of War be, an he is hereby, authorized and directed to relieve the R°““ °*· Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn, Alabama, from all money responsibility for so much of the ordnance and ordnance Stores issued to said college under its bond dated February ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as was destroyed by iire on June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Approved, May 9, 1888. my 9, 1888. CHAP. 241.-Au act granting a pension to George P. Stone. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the §°°'8° P·$*°¤°· United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is here y, authorized and directed to place on the pension—roll, subject to the lprovisions and limitations o the pension laws, the name of George. Stone, late captain of Company , Thirt -seventh Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers, at the rate of twenty dybllars per month. Approved, May 9, 1888. {ny 14, 1w. CHAP. 254.-An act for the relief of Benjamin M. Simpson. Pr¤¤¤b1•>- Whereas, a Revolutionary bounty-land scnip numbered seventy-two · hundred and sixty-nine, for eighty acres, founded on Virginia military warrant, the property of Beifzgamin M. Simpson, is alleged to have been lost or mislaid an officer of the General Land Office while said scrip was in the custody of the General Land Office: . Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and Hamm Representatives of the Bmiamin M. Simp- United States of merica in. Congress ass led, That the Secretary wiwkvenuiimmmm- of the Interior, on satisfactory proof of ownership and the loss of General Land Office, or by an emplo ee of said office, be hereby authorized and directed to reissue and deliver to Benjamin M. Simpson a Revolutionary bounty·land scrip for eighty acres of land. Approved, May 14, 1888. my pg, iw, - CHAP. 256. —An act for the relief of William P. Gorsuch. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the wmnm nemuen. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary P"‘“'°"‘ '°· of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay William P. Gorsuch, of Carroll county, Maryland, out of any mone in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars, the amount paid by him for commutation, he havin been drafted into the military service of the United States after he had arrived at the age of forty-five years. Approved May 15, 1888.
 * 1-***** ¤°*‘*P °°· said scrip, and that said scrip was lost or mislaid by an onicer of the