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 1336 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHs. 82, 88-90. 1891. George W. Hook, deceased, dated on or about the lirst day of July, eighteen hundred and fift eightwgiven as security for the faithful performance by the said George. Hook of his duties as receiver and disbursing agent of the United States land office at Humboldt, California. Received by the President January 8, 1891. [Norm nv THE DEPARTMENT or STATn.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] Jmuarym,1891. CHAP. 88.-An act to make payment to E. H. Mix, E. H. Griswold, D. D. Gritiith, W and C. C. Goodspeed, on erroneous land-entry payments. rmmme. Whereas, the said persons entered eighty acres of land at United States Land Office at La Grande, State of Oregon, and by mistake of the officers thereof paid the United States five dollars per acre instead of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, the legal price therefor: Therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the '§hHbMgx.g1.H.Gr15· United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and ‘ is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- Y•F*¤¤‘¤**°· wise appropriated, the sum of two hundred dollars, and that the same be made payable and be paid to E. H. Mix, E. H. Griswold, D. D. Griffith, an C. C. Goodspeed, of the State of Oregon. Approved, January 21, 1891. .nm¤¤·yzl,1se1. CHAP. 89.-An act for the relief ot Major Joseph W. Wham, paymaster United w States Army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the _;.,,., hw_w,,,,,,_ United States of America in Congress assembled, That the roper °,€¤¤<!l¤ i¤ ¤<=¢¤¤¤*¤ accountipg officers, in settling and adjusting the accounts of Tlajor ' Joseph. Wham, tpalymaster United States Army, are hereby directed to credit ai ajor Joseph W. Wham, paymaster United States Army, with the sum of twenty-eight thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and ten cents, Government funds, of which he was robbed in Graham County, Arizona Territory, on the eleventh of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, without his default. Approved, January 21, 1891. ·¥•¤¤¤1¤1.1U1- CHAP. 90.-An actgrantinga pension to Mrs. E. J. Baldy, widow of W. H. Baldy_ Be it enacted b the Senate and House of Representatives of the an-¤.1·.J. Baldy- United States of ei/meriea in Congress assembled, That the Secretary P°"°°"‘ of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension·roll, subject to the rovisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mrs. E. J. Baldy, widow of W. H. Bald, of Spaulding County, Georgia, who was a private soldier in the (heel: Indian war of eighteen hundred and t irty-six, in Captain  Byne’s company called “Burke Hussars,” and allow her a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month. Approved, January 21, 1891.