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 1396 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 20-22, 29, 33. 1898. sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Emily E. Atherton, widow of Captain Benjamin T. Atherton, late captain in Company C, First Maine Heavy Artillery, and pay her a pension of twenty dollars per month. Approved, February 14, 1898. February 14, 1698. CHAP. 21.-An Act Granting a pension to Mary W. C. Burgess. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United lhryW-0-B¤r¢¤•¤- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- P°""°"‘ rior 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 Mary W. C. Burgess, widow of Benjamin F. Burgess, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, and pay her a pension at the rate of seventeen dollars per month. Approved, February 14, 1898. February 14, 1898. CHAP. 22.-A:u Act Granting an increase of pension to Benjamin F. Tuck. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United @$1 F- Tuck- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- “ ‘ rior 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 Benjamin F. Tuck, late a private in Company H, Nineteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension_at the rate of thirty dollars per month, in lieu of that he is now receivmg. Approved, February 14, 1898. Febmefy 1’7» 1998- CHAP. 29.-An Act For the relief of Judson Jones. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ·l:¤~1¤¤z¤ fine: un States of America in Congress assembled, That the copyright of Judson h,°{,’Q{"f,€ 0,¤.,,,,·¥ Jones, a citizen of the United States residing in the State of Miunes•¤'·¤**'¤”*· •*¤· sota, in and to a book entitled “The Alphabet of Orthoepy,” originally published in eighteen hundred and seventy, is hereby declared valid to all intents and purposes, and the said Judson Jones, author of said book, is hereby authorized to tile with the Librarian of Congress the title thereof as it appears in the printed book aforesaid, and such llling is hereby made and declared a valid filing if made at any time within ninety days after the passage of this Act, and the extension of copy- right obtained thereon forthe fourteen years following the said eleventh day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby declared a valid copyright. Approved, February 17, 1898. F¤bf¤¤f!28· NW- CHAP. 33.-An Act Directin the issue of A check in lieu of a lost check drawn —"‘_‘_"" by Bernard R. Green in favor ofT`rederick MacMonnies, P"°“'“’*°· Whereas it appears that Bernard R. Green did, on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, issue a check, numbered four hundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and forty-seven, upon the United States Treasurer in favor of Frederick MacMonnies for the sum of iiiteen thousand dollars, being in part payment under a