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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Cris. 419, 421-423. 1907. 231 I value of the plant leased by them to the Government, and used by the 1 \Var Department in the construction of a lock and dam and construe- ‘ tion work in the Osage River, near Osage City, Missouri, and still — ` retained by the War Department for use in conjunction with the said J work on said dam. but rendered useless to said Pollard and Wallace ‘ by reason of the failure of the W'ar Department to complete said work ` by lack of proper appropriation therefor: Provided, That as a condi- gggjghn Mme tion precedent to the yment of said six thousand dollars, the saidcw ` Pollard and Wallace shhll convey to the United States a clear title in said plant, and the ownership thereof shall become vested in the United States upon the payment of said sum, and said sum is hereby appropriated for this purpose, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 25, 1907. CHAP. 421.—An Act For the relief of Augustus Trabing. J¤¤\E§ry3ig.}907- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatw}vea of the United Stateu of America in Oongrees assembled, That Augustus Trabing, hav-` ing served in the Quartermaster’s Department of the United States §,,“g‘g{*“§,T’,§§Q§§é,_ Army, and on guard dnt in the forts surrounding the city of Wash- i¤¤¤¤¤.¤t¤-.rem¤v¤d- ington, and as blacksmith, and wagon repairer with Government trains at Springlield, Illinois, and Leavenworth, Kansas, in eighteen hundred and sixty-five and eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be and he is hereby, relieved from any disability under the laws of the United States and from any defect of naturalization, and that his case, numbered fourteen n’f,‘g,,i;'g;g§,‘{f‘;}f,‘Q,’j hundred and thirty-two on the Indian depredations docket of the Court of Claims, which was dismissed for want of such naturalization, may be reinstated, and said Augustus Trabing is authorized to prosecute his said case and to receive judgment thereon the same as 1f he had been naturalized under the laws of the United States at the date of the loss; and to that end that the Court of Claims be, and hereby is, vested with jurisdiction as if the case were on original trial. Approved, January 26, 1907. CHAP. 422.-An Act For the relief of Peter Fairley. -l¤¤?§H8g..}90"-• Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United j,;,;,;,; g,;],,,,? States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to y and return to Peter Fairley the sum of four hundred and fifty dollhnrs plaid by said Peter Fairley to the United States on a judgment against im on the bail bond of John C. Lott, who was afterwards captured and returned to the United States officers by said Peter F airley. The said sum of four hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated for said payment and return of said Sum to said Peter airlgy., Approved, January 26, 1907. CHAP. 423.-—An Act For the relief of Louise Powers McKee, administratrix. JmrE§ry2£,}¤0‘i. Be it enacted by the Senate cmd Ilouse vftdeprecentatinea of the United  States of America in Ctmgresa assembled, That the Secretary of the ’ ` Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to ay to Louise Powers ·{,g’;*$€},Q g°,§,$f,·m_ McKee, administratrix of the estate of James M. g/lcKee, deceased, late mmm; or mm oe. clerk of the United States circuit court of appeals for the fifth circuit A""' "‘ W" at New Orleans, Louisiana, the sum of seven undred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-five cents, being the amount erroneously pai into the subtreasury of the United States in his emolument returns December thirty-iirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and December thirty- first, eighteen hundred and mnety-three. Approved, January 26, 1907.