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 1024 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHs. 31,32, 35. 1895. to May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, iv hen his regiment was mustered out. He subsequently enlisted December twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in Company H, Fourth Iowa Cavalry, and was honorably mustered out August eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty·|ive, with his regiment." Approved, January 17, 1895. Jmum-y 17, 1895. CHAP. 32.-An Act For the relief of I. H. Hathaway and Company. . rmmnia Whereas it appears that Thomas H. Handbury, major, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, did, on the fourteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-tour, issue a check, numbered two hundred and sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, for ten thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-four cents, on the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York in favor of I. H. Hathaway and Company, in payment of contract work done at mouth of Saint Johns River, Florida, which check is alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails between Saint Augustine Florida and Philadelphia Pennsylvania- and W1-24. r- M6- Whereas the provisions of the Act of Febriiary sixteenth, eighteen R_ S_ M_3m, _-m_ hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred and for - · P. . six, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing United States disbursing ohicer and agents to issue duplicates of lost checks, apply orgy tp checks drawn to two thousand five hundred dollars or less: T ere ore _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Ij:%,£:g·¤_;¤°{k to States of  in Congress assembled, That the said Thomas H. Hand missm m. bury, major, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, be, and he is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check, under such) regtulatgmssin regard to its issue and payment as have been prescribed y the ecretary of the Treasury for the issue of duplicate R.S.,sec.3648,p.’l17. cgieckséuéder the p:_·ovisi%ns otllsgztion thirty-six hundred and forty-six, evise `tatu es o t ie United States. Approved, January 17, 1895. I January 19,1995. CHAP. 35.-An Act For the relief of Oliver P. Coshow and others. rmtmtis. Whereas a large portion of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and lots two, three, four, live, six, and seven, section thirty-one, township thirteen south, range two west, Willamette meridian, in Linn County, State of Oregon, is now occupied by the town of North Brownsville, the property owners whereof clann title through certain persons who purchased the said land in good faith, either from the county school superintendent of Linn County, Oregon, or from the Oregon and California Railroad Company, $11% thlat the rgmainder of said described lands is claimed y iver · os ow·‘an Whereas neither the said school superintendent nor the said railroad company ever had title to the land aforesaid, but that all of the same is gowtanclcalilyiystliaz bee;1 vesgtg in the lénited States: Therefore, e 1 ena y te ena e an ouse 0‘ t t' th U 't d 21;::; gi eciszgzzier States of America in Congress asse·mbled,f Th?; egellivcerwjg qgoshowytlheis kms in 0mg0n_ heirs or legal representatives, is hereby authorized, on the payment of two dollars and ififty cents per acre, within six months after the date of the approval of this Act, to make cash entry of the southwest quarter ot the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and lots two. three, four, five, six, and seven of section thirty-one,1n township thirteen south, of range two west, of the Willamette meridian, situated in Linn County, Oregon, at the United