Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 29.djvu/751

 722 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 160,165,]66,170-172. 1896. late of Lavaca, Texas, in full compensation for dressed ilooring and rough boards furnished to the United States in August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Approved, May 6, 1896. May 9,1996. CHAP. 165.-An Act For the relief of Captain George H. Perkins. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United cmu H. lierkm. States of America in Congress assembled, That Captain George H. ,§,,l"°° Y" '°°"°‘"'” Perkins, who was retired as captain after forty years' faithful service B.£d¤¤<»1u3.r.=53- upon the active list of the United States Navy, as provided by section fourteen hundred and forty-three, Revised Statutes, and who had honorable service in the late civil war, shall be placed on the retired list with the rank of commodore without the corre ponding increased pay, but receiving only the retired pay of captain of the Navy. Approved, May 9, 1896. _ ‘ — my 9, 1896. CHAP. 166.-An Act Granting a pension toArminda Stucker, of Gallatin, Missouri. Be it enacted Im the Senate and House of Representatives of the United amines smim. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the I"""""' Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mrs. Arminda Smoker, widow of John H. Stucker, ' late a soldier in Company B, Grundy County Battalion, Missouri State at the rate of twelve dollars per month. Approved, May 9, 1896. K., u,m”_ CHAP. 1'I0.—An Act For the relief of J. J. Lints. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United {_. J.1.uuz) States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the "“‘°“ Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to J. J. Lints, of Syracuse, New York, the sum of one thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents, in full for his services as custodian of the public property at Erie, Pennsylvania, hom the eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, to the tenth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty~nine, inclusive. Approved, May 11, 1896. -.-15:2;- -11.1896. CHAP. 1'I1.—An Act For the relief of James Duke. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ·Lj_'{:gedD“§]gb0mb,° States of America in Congress assembled That the Secretary of the Navy eaeimgc. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to amend the naval record of James Duke, who enlisted in the United States Navy Febmary twentytirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and served as a first-class fireman on board the Baron de Kalb and Maria Denning up to July sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by removing the charge of desertion from the record and granting him an honorable discharge. Approved, May 11, 1896. may 11, 1896. CHAP. 172.--A.n Act Granting an honorable discharge to F. L. Taylor from _;"“*‘ December second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United rj. L.tTTy1§r. M States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, ,,,,Q§§‘,§;,§_ ""°'° ° and he is hereby, authorized and directed to correct the military record