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 1400 Fmrvrrrru conennss. sms. 11. cus. 50.52. 1898. Merch 5.1899- CHAP. 50.-An Act Directing the issue of a duplicate of lost check, drawn by W Charles E. McChesney, United States Indian agent, in favor of C. J. Holman and Brother. Pr¤¤¤¤b1¤- Whereas it appears that Charles E. McChesney, United States Indian agent at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, did, on the thirty-iirst day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, issuea check numbered thirty-two thousand seven hundred and five upon the assistant treasurer of the United States at Chicago, Illinois, in favor of C. J. Holman and Brother, for the sum of two thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars and forty cents, in payment of a balance due upon a contract for brick furnished the United States at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, which check is alleged to have been lost in transmission through the United States mails by Charles E. McCbesney, United States Indian agent; and gg 2f3g-,?:;,} ,,1,, Whereas the provisions of the Act of February sixteenth, eighteen ``P`hundred and eighty-five, amending section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing United States disbursin g officers and agents to issue duplicates of lost checks, apply only to checks drawn for two thousand five hundred dollars, or less: Therefore, _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Charles E. McGhee- States of America in Congress assembled, That said Charles E. McChes- ‘,§${,,*§,{,°,§‘,§‘,‘§,'}“"li°“*" ney, United States Indian agent, be, and he is hereby, instructed to issue a duplicate of said original check, under such regulations in regard to its issue and payment as have been prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the issue of duplicate checks under the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and forty-six, Revised Statutes of the United - States, as amended. Approved, March 5, 1898. Much 5· 1998- CHAP. 51.—·-An Act Granting an increase of pension to Henry B. Conway. H B C Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United P§,§‘,;{,,, ;,,§§{,§'§,§{;_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Henry B. Conway, late of Company F, Second Illinois Volunteers, Mexican war, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, in lieu of the pension he is now receiving. Approved, March 5, 1898. M“'°l‘ 11898* _ CHAP._52.—An Act For the relief of the Newberry College, Newberry, South Carolina. Y Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R esentatives o the United y$£Kgb,$,”T§_g°1l°g“ States of America in Congress assembled, r°iYQ,t the Secrgtary of the P=*Y¤*°¤* *°· Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the trustees of the Newberry College of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina, m Newberry, in said State, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for injuries to the buildings of said college, resulting in its destruction, and caused by the troops of the United States while in possession of it and occupying It as a barrack, after the close of the war, in eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in South Carolina, and said sum shall be in hill payment ofall claims by said college on account of the use occupation ~ . . 7 7 and loss of the bmldmgs. Approved, March 7, 1898.