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 1210 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 426. 1899. K*¤°°u*¤•°¤° dollars and iift -two cents in payment of the balance due them on a °mm°`c°°m°°d` contract entercll into witlnthem by the United States of America April twentydirst, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for furnishing stone for the walls of the cellar, or subbasement, of the Library building, in the city of Washington, as found by the Secretary of the Interior in his report to Congress (House Document Numbered One hundred and seventeen, ~first session Fifty-fourth Congress), under the authority conferred upon him by the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page ninety-four), which sum shall be paid as follows: To William H. B. Stout, sixteen thousand eight hundred and two dollars and ilfty-two cents; To Isaac S. Bangs, six thousand dollars; To Cyrus J. Hall, six thousand dollars; and To J. M. Vale, three thousand dollars. To Chester B. Sweet, of California, the sum of one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-six cents, the same being the amount of the double minimum excess erroneously paid by him to the receiver of the United States land office on preemption cash certificate numbered twelve hundred and ninety-eight, Shasta, California, for lots one, two, and three, and northeast quarter of southwest quarter of section numbered seven, in township numbered forty north, range numbered seven west, Mount Diablo base and meridian, made at Shasta, California, March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty- six. · To W. J. Tapp and Company the sum of two hundred and forty dollars and ten cents, as a refund of duties erroneously exacted on certain machinery for the manufacture of jute at Louisville, Kentucky, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six. To Olivia and Ida Walter, heirs and children of Thomas U. Walter, deceased, the sum of fourteen thousand dollars, for services rendered by the testator in connection with any public buildings belonging to the Government, whether as architect, designer, disbursing agent, superintendent, or otherwise. ‘ To William R. Wheaton, ex-register, and to Charles H. Chamberlain, ex-receiver, of the land office at San Francisco, California, jointly, the sum of five thousand eight hundred dollars and ninety-nine cents, and to said William B.Wheaton the sum of seventy-tive dollars and eighty- live cents, being a portion of the amount of money deposited in the Treasury of the United States, as fees for testimony which was taken before them by clerks whose compensation was paid from the private funds of said ex-register and said ex-receiver. To William F. Wilson, of Berkeley County, West Virginia, the sum of one thousand five hundred and thirty dollars, for the use and value of his house at Harpers Ferry, J eiferson County, West Virginia, during the war of the rebellion. To Mrs. Sarah H. Wood, widow, of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, the sum of one thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars and forty- four cents, said sum being theproceeds of two thousand two hundred and forty dollars and seventy-four cents in legal money taken from the bank of Louisiana, at New Orleans, Louisiana, by Captain J. W. McClure, assistant quartermaster, under military order numbered two hundred and two. Department of the Gulf, dated August seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and by him turned over to Colonel S. B. Holabird, chief quartermaster of that department, and by him disbursed and accounted for to the Treasury. To the estate of Daniel Woodson, deceased, late receiver of public moneys in the Delaware land district of Kansas, the sum of one thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-six cents, for office expenses, and to the estate of Ely Moore, deceased, late register of the land office in the Pawnee land district of Kansas, the sum of four thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars, for clerk hire and office rent, both under the seventh section of the Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, reported to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior for appropriation in accordance with said Act.