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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 887. 1902. 2 37 To the owners, or their legal representatives, of the vessel or bark B'·’k “A’°*i°·" Arctic, the sum of twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars, for the losses sustained by them in abandoning their business of whale catching, and the services rendered in rescuing one hundred and seventy-six seamen in the Arctic Sea; the said money to be paid over to the owners of said bark, the Arctic, for the benefit of themselves and of such offlicers and crew as were en aged in that particular season, to wit, the summer of eighteen hun<Ii·ed and seventy-one, of the cruise in the Arctic Ocean, during which said rescue was made; and said moneys shall be distributed by the owners between themselves and said oflicers and crew in the proportion to their res ective lays, and in the same manner as the or inary earnings of said) C1'€W would have been distributed; the Secretary of the Treasury not to be bound to see to the application of said moneys by the owners. To Avery D. Babcock, of Polk County, Oregon, and to Margaret I. g,‘};°{YBQb@§c‘} MM' Babcock, his wife, the sum of two thousand dollars, to be equally` divided between them, in payment of their claim against the Govern- · ment of the United States for the use and occupation by the*United States of their donation claim numbered fifty-eight, in section eight, in township six south, range seven west of the llVillamette meridian, in the State of Oregon. ` To the heirs of Lawrence D. Bailey, the sum of two hundred dol- L’“"'°“°“D·B”“°Y~ lars, erroneously paid by them on timber-culture cash entry sixteen thousand and forty-five for the southeast quarter of section twenty- four, township twenty-two south, range thirty-four west, Garden City, Kansas, on the eleventh day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. To Elias E. Barnes, the sum of fourteen thousand five hundred and Elm E- B“'““- forty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents. in full of all claims and demands, the amount found due the said Elias E. Barnes by referees acting under appointment of the then Secretary of the Interior, and the said amount being the loss and damage sustained by said Elias E. Barnes by reason of the failure on the part of the United States to keep a contract made and entered into with him by the United States of America April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, for putting in a concrete foundation for the Library building in the city of \Vashington. To James M. Seymour, junior, the sum of two thousand five hun- James M. Seymour dred dollars, for services as assistant commissioner to the International E sition at Barcelona, S ain. lglpd) John Breitling, of Igebraska, the sum of seven hundred and Jvhn Breitling. thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents, for commissary stores furnished by him in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at Clinton, in the State of Iowa, to United States troops then stationed at that lace. P To Captain Albert C. Brown, master of the schooner Alexandra, A1ber¤C.Br<>w¤. the sum of one thousand dollars, in full compensation for fitting out his vessel and rescuing and trans rting from the southwest end of the island of Kadiak, Alaska, to \lP0ood Island, Alaska, the crew of the American schooner C. G. White, which was wrecked on said Kadiak Island April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. To Catherine Burns, of Annapolis, Maryland, the sum of seven 0¤¢h¤ri¤e B¤r¤¤· hundred and one dollars and twenty-five cents, the amount due by the United States to her late husband, Louis Burns. deceased, for difference of pav and rations as mate on United States ship Potomac from April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to July ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and heretofore allowed by the proper accounting offcers of the Treasury Department, but not paid for want of an appropriation of money wit which to pav the same. To the heirs or le l representatives of Charles P. Culver, husband Q{;€*uQ°§f· C“"°"· of the late Mrs. Catizrine P. Culver, the sum of five hundred and