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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. OHS. 1110-1112, 1114, 1115. 1888. 1201 order of the Postmaster-General, to the American Grocer Association, of the city of New York, the sum of four hundred and eighty-six P°“’P·9“ dollars, or so much_thereof as may be found equitably due, for postage erroneously paid by said association. Approved, October 12, 1888. CHAP. 1.I.11.—An act for the relief of settlers upon old Camp Sheridan military 0¤1¤¤b¢1‘ 12. 1888- reservation. ‘;‘;**_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ol? America in Congress assembled, That all entries or 0ampSheri•ian mili— filings under the homestead and preemption laws, allowed b the {’,“Qk'f‘°"‘"°”* N°` United States district land officers at Va entine, Nebraska, of lands HL¤g,1¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤.¤¤¤— within the limits of the former Camp Sheridan militar reservation, rm ' situated in township thirty-three north of ranges forty-dve and forty- six west, in said State, prior to receipt by them of instructions from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated July second, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed: Provided, That the persons making such filings or entries pos- ammo. sessed the necessariy dualincations and have, since tiling or entry (as omimemom. the case may be), ul y complied with the law governing entries of like character upon public lands. Sec. 2. That in cases of filings under the pre-emption law, made '1‘i¤}<> extended for upon lands in said abandoned reservation, the limitation of thirty °°mp mug p°y"'°“°‘ months, prescribed by section twenty-two hundred and sixty-seven, B.S.,sec.2267,p.416. United States Revised Statutes, shal not be enforced, but fproof and payment must be made within six months from passage 0 this act. Approved, October 12, 1888. CHAP. 1112.-A.n act granting a pension to Lieutenant Starkey R. Powell, of October 12. isss. Black Hawk war. 1** Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary sm-key 11 Powell. of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place P°““’°“· on the pension·roll, subject to the provisions and limitations o the pension laws, the name of Starkey . Powell, late lieutenant in Captain William B. Smith's company of the Third Regiment of Illinois Mounted Volunteers in the B ack Hawk war, and pay him a pension at the rate of thirty dollars a month. Approved, October 12, 1888. CHAP. 1114.-An act granting a pension to Walter O. Watson. October1S. 18S8g_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary gjgglo- “'¤*·°°¤· of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place ` on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Walter O. Watson, late a private in Company D, Fourteenth Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers. Approved, October 15, 1888. CHAP. 1115.-An act granting a pension to Edward Waters. October l5» ISE8- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary W°*°"”· of the Interior be authorized and directed to place the name of surr L-··—VOL xxv——76