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 1016 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 353-355. 1894. August 27,18% CHAP. 353.-An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to ""‘*"*"" pay to the heirs or legal representatives of C. P. Gooch certain money due him for carrying the mail. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United gginigfa; States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ' Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to pay to the heirs or legal representatives of C. P. Gooch the sum of sixtynve dollars, being balance due him for carrying the mail on route numbered eighty-two hundred and thirty-seven, in the State of Louisiana, from January urst to March thirty·iirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved, August 27, 1894. A¤Z¤¤¤ 27· 1894- CHAP. 354.—An Act Directing the issue of a duplicate of a lost check drawn by ‘“‘—°_‘“"‘_"" Captain W. H. Bixby, Engineers United States Army, at Newport, Rhode Island, in favor of Messrs. Hughes Brothers and Bangs. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United §g¤ 3*0***** States of America in Congress assembled, That Captain W. H. Bixby, mnupueilt check to Engineers United States Army, be, and is hereby. authorized and Secretary of the Treasury for the issue of duplicate checks under the R.S..s¤c.3646,p·717- provisions of section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. Said duplicate check to take the place of an original check issued by said W. H. Bixby on September twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, upon the subtreasury at New York, in favor of Hughes Brothers and Bangs, for the sum of five thousand and eleven dollars and ninety-three cents, and numbered two hundred and fifty-nine thousand and one, being for services in August, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under their contract with the United States for work at Point Judith, Rhode Island, which check is alleged to have been lost in its transmission through the United States mail. Approved, August 27, 1894. August 28.18% CHAP. 355.-—An Act For the relief of S. E. Hallford, of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives eg the United s£hH¤:;f¤mhbma States of America in Congress assembled, That the title to the following- ,,,.,,,,,,.,§°,,,d ,,,_ described lands within the county of Dale and State of Alabama, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section eighteen, township three, range twenty-six, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section seven, township three, range twenty-six, and the west half of the southwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter, and twenty acres of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, and the west half of the northeast quarter of southwest quarter, and southeast quarter of southwest quarter, and northeast quarter of southeast quarter, and twenty acres of northeast quarter, section twenty-one, township five, range twenty-four, which was bought by the United States at a sale made by the marshal of the middle division of said State, be divested out of the United States and be reinvested in the said S. E. Hallford as fully and completely as before the said sale, Approved, August 28, 1894.
 * “° *°· instructed to issue a duplicate of an original check under such regulations in regard to its issue and payment as have been prescribed by the