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 '[`WEN'l`Y-EIG1I'1`I{ CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 20, 21,22,23, 24. 1844. 909 Samuel Shannon the sum of six hundred and thirty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents, being the balance declared to be due in the report of the Third Auditor, under the authority of the said audit of the Secretary of War. Ar>i>rtovnn, May 23, 1844. _; STATUTB I. CHAP. XX.-An Act for the relief of Wolet Calhoun, widow of John Calhoun. May 23, 1344, Be it enacted, •$-c., That the Secretary of War be authorized and re- — quired to place Violet Calhoun, widow of John Calhoun, late a captain To be placed in the army of the Revolution, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners 0¤ P°¤¤l°¤ wl}- of the United States; and that she be allowed annually the full pay of a captain, commencing on the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. Ar>r·nov1:o, May 23, 1844. j"` S1·A·1·Un I. CHAP. XXI. -——.r2n Hel for the relief if John Miller. May Q3, 1844, Be it enacted, r$~o., That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to cause to be issued to John Land patent Miller, of Williams county, in the state of Ohio, a patent for the west *° be l”“°d· half of the north-west quarter of section twenty-two, in township five north, range one east, containing eighty acres, without any further pay- ment of money therefor by said Miller. Approved, May 23, 1844. it Snruriz I. CHAP. XXII. —An Act granting a pension to Bartholomew Magrtire. May 23, 1g44_ Be it enacted, nyc., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, to pay to Bartholomew Maguire, out of any moneys in the treasury not A pension otherwise appropriated, the sum of six dollars per month, from the first gmntedw himday of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, being the time he made application for a pension, to the twelfth day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the time at which his present pension commenced. Anrnovnn, May 23, 1844. -·——· STATUTE I. CHAP. XXIII.-An Acl fo explain an act of Congress, passed on the third day of May 23, 1844, March, eighteen hundred and frrrly-three, entitled “Jin aelfar the relief of Eli- "*j"* zabelh. Gresham, widow ry" George Gresham." Be it enacted, &c., That the act of Congress, which passed on the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled "An act for Act of March the relief of Elizabeth Gresham, widow of George Gresham," shall be 3· lb8`l3r°h· 109· so construed, understood and executed by the Secretary of War as to ;(:,.u§dSg,`¥:,",l_ authorize and require him, and he is hereby instructed, to allow to the lowan additionsaid Elizabeth Gresham in common with all other widows who have ¤l P°¤¤l°“ fm been pensioned under, and received the benefit of the act of seventh of °°° y°u' July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, the additional pension for one year, which by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and tbrty-three, is made payable to such widows as have received the benefit of the said act of the seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty- Act of July 7, eight: the amount so to be paid to the said Elizabeth Gresham, for the 1E3G. ch- 189- additional year, to be the same which was allowed to her annually for live years, in pursuance of the aforesaid act of which this act is explanatory. Approved, May 23, 1844. _ STATUTE I. CHAP. XXl'V.·——An Act for the relief of Isaac Justice, l_l;I°Y 23· *844; Be it enacted, $1-., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, To be ,,,,,,,,,1 authorized and directed to place the name of Isaac Justice, of Tennes- on pension roll.