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 FIFTY-FIFTH CON GBESS. Sess. III. CHS. 334, 401-403. 1899. 1547 CHAP. 334.-An Act Granting a pension to Mary E. Taylor. March 1, 1899. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the {,2:*,%,% hy'"' 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 Mary E. Taylor, dependent and permanently helpless daughter of John Taylor, late a private in Company F, Fifteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month. Approved, March 1. 1899. CHAP. 401.-An Act For the relief of Thomas Mullen. um-cb 2y1g9g_ Be i thenacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, ’¤¤·>¤¤¤¤ Mullenand is hereby; authorized and directed to remove the charge of deser- ,u$,Yf}§1 *"’"°'“°l° tion now standing upon the records of the War Department against the name of Thomas Mullen, of Wallacebnrg, Arkansas, late member of Company G, First New York Mounted Rifles Volunteers, and grant him an honorable discharge as of the twenty-ninth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive: Provided, That no pay, bounty, or meal. other emoluments shall become due or payable by virtue of the passage N° P“Y· °*°· of this Act. Approved, March 2, 1899. CHAP. 402.-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issues duplicate Mmh 2. W99- bond to Benjamin H. March, executor of the last will and testament of Ruth March, '—;""""“ deceased, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the B¤ui¤¤¤i¤ H-Muck. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and instructed to issue a °xiZ§`.ig°$i’l»r (umn. duplicate bond in the name of Benjamin H. March, executor of the last ¤¤{;=0;>*,},°·* bggélm will and testament of Ruth March, deceased, in lieu of a United States'"' ' four per centum registered bond issued under the Acts of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and January twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, numbered sixty-eight thousand eight hun— dred and thirty, for one thousand dollars, inscribed in the name of Ruth March, and alleged to have been lost or destroyed: Provided, initio. That the said Benjamin II. Marcin shall first file in the Treasury a bond I“"°“‘”*°Y *’°'“‘· in a penal sum in double the amount of the said missing bond and the interest which would accrue thereon until the principal thereof becomes due and payable, with two good and sufficient snreties, residents of the ['nitcd States, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, with condition to indemnifv and save harmless the United States from any claim because of the lost or destroyed bond. Approved, March 2, 1899. CHAP. 403.-An Act For the relief of \Villiam Henry Johnson. March 2, 1899. Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ Mate.; of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is Jcglgginm Henry hereby authorized and directed to remove the charge of desertion from .6,,,,,,éd ,,0,,,,,,, the military record of William Henry Johnson, of Ceresco, Saunders ·1¤¤¤¤¤rz¤- County, Nebraska, who served under the name of Henry Johnson, ot Company H, Second Pennsylvania Cavalry (Fifty-ninth_Pennsylyania, [nmntry), transferred to Company H, First Pennsylvania Provisional