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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1224-1227. 1888. 1221 CHAP. 1224.-An act for the relief of Henrietta M. Sands, widow of the late 0¢*»<>b¢r19.1888- Rear—Admiral Benjamin F. Sands, United States Navy. iw_`· He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 1§¤¤¤‘l¤*'>¤tM· S¤·¤d=<»- of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ay, mmm °' out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise a propriatei to Henrietta M. Sands, widow of the late Rear-Admirzd Ben'amin F. Sands, United States Navy, the sum of three hundred and seventy dollars and fifty cents, being the sum due to the decedent under the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Graham ' and Temple cases as the difference between actual traveling expenses allowed and the milealge due for travel performed by decedent upon duty under orders in une, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved, October 19, 1888. CHAP. 1225.-An act for the relief of G. W. McAdams. October 19, 1888. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmas- G<~><>rz¤ W- Mc ter-General of the United States is hereby authorized to release and Aummmnt ¤,_ relieve George W. McAdams, postmaster at Mount Pleasant Iowa, and his sureties, of all responsibility and liability to the Government for funds and pro ert of the Government stolen from said post—oflice on the night oip July, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, y burglars: Provided, That he shall, upon examination, fin that such loss was without negligence, fault, or blame on the part of said postmaster. Approved, October 19, 1888. . CHAP. 1226.~—An act for the relief of Colonel James C. Duane. Ocwbef X9- 1B$8· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Regriresentatires of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of six {;{f:_°bfé1Q*L*_;*gm hundred and orty-eight dollars, lawful money, be, and is hereby, ` appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse Colonel James C. Duane, brevet brig1adier— general, United States Army, for losses incurred in his o `ce as engineer of the third light-house district through the forgeries committed by a clerk in is office, Henry J. Buete (who has fied the country), in raising his official checks to amounts greater than those for which they were drawn and signed, between the first day of January and the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, without any negligence or fault on the part of the said Colonel James C. Duane. Approved, October 19, 1888. CHAP. 1227. —-An act for the relief of Margaret Kennedy. October 19,1K. Be it enacted by the &nate and House of Re resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled; That the Quarter- }_i¤rs¤ser£t§¤¤¤¤<¥v· master-General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to as- Wm ` certain and state the value of all timber, fences, and fruit trees on the farm of John Kennedy, deceased, situate in the District of Co~ lumbia, ulpon which Fort Sedgewick was erected, taken, and used for firewood (y the Army of the United States, and also the value of all timber sol by the Government which had been taken from said farm