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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FlFTY·FIFTH CONGRESS • OF THE UNITED STATES Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December, 1897, and was adjourned without day on the eighth day of July, 1898. WILLIAM MCKl.NLEY, President; GARBET A. HoBAntr, Vice-President and President _of the Senate; WILLIAM P. Fam, President of the Senate, pro tempore; T1IomAs B. REED, Speaker, and SEREN0 E. PAYNE, Speaker pro tempore, of the House of Representatives. _ . CHAP. 9.-An Act For the relief of William S. Grant. _ January 25, 1801;. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of seventy-seven guggmg- G¤¤¤¤· thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirtyeight cents y ° °‘ be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to William S. Grant, in full satisfaction of his claims against the United States arising out of his contract to supply military posts in Arizona in the years eighteen hundred and sixty and eighteen hundred and sixty-one, said sum of money to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of War, who shall take proper releases and receipts from the said William S. Grant. Approved, January 25, 1898. CHAP. 19.-An Act Granting u pension to Ella D. Cross. F¤bru¤ry14.1s9s. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Fla P. Cross. rior bc. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pen- °‘“"°“‘ sion rolls, subject to the provisions and limitations of the general pension laws, the name of Ella D. Cross, widow of Richard E. Cross, late lieutenuntcolonel of the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. Approved, February 14, 1898. CHAP. 20.-An Act Granting a pension to Emily E. Atherton. February 14, 1898. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- %m11yE.Ath¤rt0m mn- be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pen- °"' °"· 1395