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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 172-174, 178. 1896. 723 of Captain F. L. Taylor, late of Thirty-fourth New Jersey Volunteers, and to issue to said officer a certificate of honorable discharge, as of December second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Approved, May 11, 1896. CHAP. 173.-An Act Granting a pension to Sarah A. Boyd. May 11, 1896. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the gm? A- B°Fd- Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the °°°m' pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Sarah A. Boyd, widow of George Boyd, late first lieutenant Company E, First Regiment Minnesota Infantry Volunteers. and pay her a pension at the rate of seventeen dollars per month. Received by the President, April 29, 1896. . [Norm nv THE DEPARTMENT or STATn.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. 174.-An Act To amend the record of William H. De Freost. May 11, ,89,, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be FWi11i=•¤¤ H· D¤ directed to amend the record of the War Department in the case of $$::;..,4 i..,...i,i., VVilliam H. De Freest, late second lieutenant of Company B, First Iowa diyfvfgj- Cavalry, so as to grant him an honorable discharge: Provided, That No pay;¤tc. this Act shall not be construed to give to said William H. De Freest any pay or allowance for any period of time he was absent without leave, and not in the performance of military duty, or to such time as he would have been discharged by limitation of time of enlistment or otherwise. Received by the President, April 29, 1896. [Norm nv THE DEPARTMENT or STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] CHAP. 1'I8.——An Act For the relief of Enoch Davis. May ,3_ ,896 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting ggmlggaajsofficers of the Government be, and hereby are, directed to liquidate ym ' and settle the claim of Enoch Davis, late a member of Company G of the Sixth Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry, for pay and bounty; and the sum of three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the amount that may be awarded to him on account of said claim. Approved, May 13. 1896.