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 804 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 244-247. 1897. 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.] February 17, 1897. CHAP. 245.-An Act For the relief of Silas P. Keller. Sim P nlm Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United mm. io. ...,3,,;;..,. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the {;*;j;l¤n¤;Le{,¤d*¤¤¤ *0 Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to examine and ` adjudicate the claim of Silas P. Keller, late licensed Indian trader with the Pottawatomie Indians in Kansas, for supplies furnished said Indian band for their subsistence, and to determine the amount thereof justly due said Silas P. Keller, and whether there is any fu11d belonging to said Indians which can be applied to the payment of such claim, and, if so determined, then to report and certify the amount found due to said Silas P. Keller, without interest, to be paid from the funds of said ' Indians to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be so paid by him. Received by the President, February 5, 1897. [Norm BY THE DEPARTMENT on 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 Con tntution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]. F¤b¤‘¤=¤y 17. 1897- CHAP. 246.-A.n Act For the relief of H. C. Herndon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United }‘;;hg]‘;’{j0‘l°“· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ` Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and four dollars and thirty cents, to H. C. Herndon, of Cattlettsburg, Kentucky, for the loss of a registered package containing said sum which he placed in the post-office at WVebbville, Kentucky, as deputy collector of internal revenue, on November twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, addressed to Thomas C. McDowell, co lector for seventh internal-revenue district of Kentucky, and which sum was stolen from said post-office on the night of the twenty-fourth of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and the said Herndon was compelled to pay the said collector the said sum. Approved, February 17, 1897. February 17. 1897. C  247.—An Act To cure the title to certain real estate in the District of " "‘""W""“ 0 HID Il. _ Be ·i thenacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United g2'}'}? tg“{}§`§°,:{ States o/'America in Congress assembled, That the United States hereby §g'gQ?;_:;}··*¤· ;·L¤g¤ quitclaim and release in favor of George W. Watson, his heirs and mime. um' " assigns, any and all claim or title which they, the said United States, have in or to lots numbered seven and eight, in square numbered nine hundred and ninety-six, situate in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. Approved, February 17, 1897.