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 770 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 121, 122,128,129. 1892, soldier in McMillan’s regiment, Captain George Patrick’s company, Alabama Volunteers in the Creek war, eighteen hundred and thirty six, and that she is hereby allowed a pension of twelve dollars per month. Sec. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, June 17, 1892. June 17, 1892. CHAP. 122.-An act to increase the pension of Cassie A. Davis. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Cassie A_.D¤vi¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P°““‘°“ "‘°"°““d' Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll the name of Cassie A. Davis, of Morrisville, Vermont, widow of James P. Davis, of Company E, Third Regiment Vermont Volunteers, at the rate of two dollars per month in addition to the pension now allowed to her; said sum of two dollars per month to be paid to her during the life of her permanently helpless daughter, Mary T,. Davis. Approved, June 17, 1892. June m, 1892. CHAP. 128.-An act for the relief of Robert H. Montgomery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United nam 11. Mont- States of America in Congress assembled, That Robert H. Montgomery, ¤°.}f‘L c,,,,,,,,,,, ,0, major of cavalry, United States Army, shall be entitled to credit, for my- cw-. vhi1¤1»ri¤•>¤- the pay and allowances he received for the period of time from the °'°‘ ""' nineteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to the sixteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, during which time he was a prisoner of war in the hands of the enemy, the same as though he had actually been in the military service of the· United States as a second lieutenant of cavalry during that period, and the judgment of the United States Court of Claims in the case of Robert H. Montgomery versus The United States, rendered on the seventh day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, against the said Robert H. Montgomery for the sum of one thousand six hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents, upon a counter-claim presented by the United States, said sum having been received by the said Robert H. Montgomery as pay for the period during which he was, as hereinbefore stated, a prisoner of war, be, and the same is hereby, remitted, and the said Robert H. Montgomery is hereby discharged from all obligations to pay said judgment. Approved, June 22, 1892. June 22.1892. CHAP. 129.-An act for the relief of Francis W. Wickham. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United rming w. wm. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, "“g',·,,m,, ,8wd ,,0, and hereby is, authorized and directed to remove from the records on r¤¤¤>d· file in his office the charges of desertion appearing thereon against Francis W. Wickham, under the name of Frank W. Wickham and Frank Wickham, private of Company D, Ninth Regiment Michigan Cavalry Volunteers, and substitute therefor, "absented himself without leave and was enrolled on November twenty-sixth, eighteen hnndred and sixty-three, and mustered into the service as trumpeter or bugler on December first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in Company A, First Regiment Michigan Cavalry Volunteers, under the name of Franklin Waggle or Frank Waggill, transferred to Company E of same regiment, and was honorably discharged from the service on March tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six/’ as a bugler. Approved, June 22, 1892.