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 1936 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Ssss.III. CHs.142,143, 151,152. 1895. cents for money-order funds, stolen from said office on the night of September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and mnety-three, through no fault of the said Dennis McIntyre. Approved, February 28, 1895. February 28, 1895. IDCBAP. 143.-An Act For the relief of the First State Bank of Mound City, ———-——·—-—··· 111018. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United F,,,, sm., 1;,,,;, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- M<>¤¤•i gig m ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund to the First mmState Bank of Mound City, Illinois, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventeen cents, being the amount of pension check numbered one hundred and fifty-three thousand two hundred and forty- four, issued by I. Clements as pension agent at Chicago, Illinois, bearing date July twenty- sixth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety, and payable to the order of Ida Hudson (now Ida Carter), and which said check was cashed by said First State Bank of Mound City, Illinois, which said check was after the time of said payment supposed to bear the forged indorsement of the payee, and which said indorsement has since been ascertained to be genuine. Approved. February 28, 1895. gud. L lg; CHAP. 151.-Au Act For the relief of Mrs. Evelyn N. Van Vliet. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United EvalynN.VanVliet. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the 1****** °’*- Interior be, and he ishereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, at twenty-five dollars per month pension, the name of Mrs. Evalyn N. Van Vliet, widow of the late Major Frederick Van Vliet, of the Tenth Cavalry, United States Army. Approved, March 1, 1895. March 1, 1895. CHAP. 152.-An Act For the relief of Captain Ceran Saint Vrain’s Company of ————---——-——-— New Mexico Mounted Volunteers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United N s w M e x x c c States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers and enlisted “g‘;f){:‘}u‘f,‘§;},,§,‘gg‘{j,·, men of the company of New Mexico Mounted Volunteers which served vnun c¤¤¤i;¤¤y to under Captain Ceran Saint Vrain, and was present at the battles of La ’°°°"° *’“"* ° '°‘ Canada, January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, El Embudo, January twentyminth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and Taos, February iourth, eighteen hundred and fortyseven, in the Territory of New Mexico, shall be placed on the same iboting in regard to pay and allowances, as volunteers regularly mustered into the United States service. u,,,,,,, ,,,,,_ Sec. 2. That in auditing and paying the foregoing accounts, the copy of muster roll of said company now on file in the War Department, dated Santa Fe, New Mexico, February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, which shows the company organized at Santa Fe, New Mexico, January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and discharged at that place February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and which bears the indorsement of the secretary of the Territory of New Mexico, dated October tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, certifying that it is a true copy of the original roll of said company, shall be the data to guide the accounting ofllcers. Approved, March 1, 1895.