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 736 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 287-290. 1896. Ms! 30. 1896- L CHAPR 28'{.-;An Act Bigr the relief of Mary J ane Lynn, the daughter of John R. W y11D, 8 BV0 l1 l.0l134l‘y S0 IGI`. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United {_i¤¤j&T¤¤¤ I·y¤¤· States of America in Congress assembled, Thati thetgdecretafy of the °““' "' Interior be and he is hereby authorized and irec to p ace upon the pensionyroll, subject to the limitations and provisions of the pension laws, the name of Mary Jane Lynn, the daughter of John R. Lynn, who served as a private soldier from the State of Pennsylvania, under General Wayne, in the war of the Revolution, and allow the said Mary Jane Lynn a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month. Approved, May 30, 1896. May 80, 1896. CHAP. 288.-An Act For the relief of Kate Eberle, an Indian woman. ` child of six or seven years of age, was separated from that Indian nation in its ilight after the defeat of Black Hawk in the battle of Bad Axe, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and was thereby prevented from receiving her pro rata share by virtue of several treaties made between the United States Government and the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians subsequent to the period of the Black Hawk war, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two· and Whereas she was an Indian poor, and ignorant of the English lana guage and the laws and treaties of the United States, and incapable of bringing herself within the protection of the treaty of eighteen hundred and nity-nine, wherein it was provided “_That those who did not rejoin and permanently reunite themselves with the tribe within one year from the datteuqlf the ratiiieation of said should not be entitled to any of the ents of its provisions : e ore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United · xm nw1e. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P“*"“°““°· Treasury be, and he is hereby, required to pay to the saiddKate Eberle, her heirs and representatives the sum of six hundred an seventy-two dollars and eight cents out of the trust fund held and credited by the Government to that tribe of Indian s, the same being the approximately estimated cash value rightfully due the said Kate Eberle instead of her pro rata share of the provision in land or otherwise made by the Government according to said treatieg which would have accrued to her had she remained with the Sac tri e. Approved, May 30, 1896. Mas; CHAP. 289.-—An Act Granting a pension to William Grose. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United wmnm ems. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the "“””‘°““’°"’“°"· Interior bei and he is hereby, authorized gn;] directed to place on the pension ro subject to the provisions an imitations of the pension laws, the naine of Williarn Grose, of Newcastle, Henry County, Indiana, late a brigadier-general of the United States Volunteers in the Union Ariny, a}: tllze rate of spventy-ve dollars per month, said pension to be in ien o t at which e now receives. Approved, May 30, 1896. W__Nf{  ‘ CHAP. 290.——An Act For the relief of Maria E. Wilson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United mms iawum. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P°"“‘°" "‘°'°““’“· 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 Maria E. Wilson, widow of Matthew Wilson, late
 * "°**¤""°· Whereas Kate Eberle, an Indian woman of the Sac tribe, when a