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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 107, 109, 113, 114. 1900. I4S3 CHAP. 107 .—An Act Granting a pension to Matilda G. Higbee. Much 24.1900 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tbgt the Secretary of the lgmilda G-Hisbee. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the. mma' pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension aws, the name of Matilda G. Higbee, late nurse with the Eight Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month. Approved, March 24, 1900. CHAP. 109.-An Act For the relief of J. A. Ware. March 26,1900. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentatiues of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, '1{1`gat the Secretary of the ·%A·W8·T€- Treasn be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to J. A. Bymm t°‘ Ware ge sum of three thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty-two cents, the same to be in full fO1' all claims of said Ware for extra ex enditures incurred by him in the construction of the Mound City National Cemetery roadway, under his contract with the Q_uartermaster’s Department, dated October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, said amount being found equitably due said Ware by the Quartermaster—General United States Army, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-two, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session; and the amount necessary to make said payment is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropmated. Approved, March 26, 1900: CHAP. 1 13.-An Act To authorize C. R. Dobbins to accept a gold watch awarded March 2s, 1900. to him by the government of the Dominion of Canada in recognition of his humane ""‘_’_" and gallant services to the shipwrecked crew of the British schooner Ashton, of Weymouth, Nova Scotia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofltqzvresentatvhzes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That C. R. Dobbins, keeper c. R. Dobbins. of the light station at Moose Peak, Maine, be, and he is hereby, author- w§{§§ ,,‘§§§€§;,,§({Qd ized to accept a gold watch awarded to him by the government of the Dominion of Canada, in recognition of his humane and gallant services to the shipwrecked crew of the British schooner Ashton, of Weymouth, Nova Scotia. Approved, March 28, 1900. CHAP. 114.-An Act To authorize C. E. Marr and E. H. Pierce to accept silver March 28,1900. watches awarded to them by the government of the Dominion of Canada in recogni- ;‘°“‘;" tion of their services in rescuing British sailors. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRq2resentatioes of tbe United States of America in,Congress assembled, That C. E. Marr and E. H. PiQi£ Mmand E·H· Pierce, keepers of the Cuckolds, Maine, fog-signal station, be, and are 1~r¤y'¤cc?t watches hereby, au orized to accept each a silver watch awarded to them, {mm Cm! °‘ respectively, by the government of the Dominion of Canada in recognition of their services in rescuing the captain and crew of the schoone1· Aurora, of Harboursville, Nova Scotia, on January fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Approved, March 28, 1900.