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Rh Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to procure, and transmit the said Milly, a medal with appropriate devices impressed thereon, of the value of not exceeding twenty dollars, as  additional testimonial of the gratitude of the United States. Approved, June 17, 1844.

CHAP. CLV.—.An act granting a pension to Beihia Healy, widow of George Healy, deceased.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Bethia Healy, of the city of New York, widow of George Healy, on the revolutionary pension roll; and to pay her at the rate of six months’ service, rendered by her late husband in the revolutionary war, as a soldier, under the act of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. Approved, June 17, 1844.

CHAP. CLVI.—An Act granting a pension to Emanuel Shrofe.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is,authorized and directed to place the name of Emanuel Shrofe, of Brown county, in the state of Ohio, on the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of four dollars per month, to continue during his natural life, and commence from the twenty-third day of September, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-three. Approved, June 17, 1844.

CHAP. CLVII.—An Act for the relief of F.A. Kerr. June 17, 1844.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to F. A. Kerr, of Arkansas, the sum of five hundred and Payment for Fifteen dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; it being for actual expenses incurred by said Kerr while engaged in enrolling and issuing rations to indigent Osage Indians, from the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. Approved, June 17, 1844.

CHAP. CLVIII—.An Act for the benefit of the heirs of Christopher Miller.

Be it enacted, &c., That Isaiah Miller, Mary W. Walls, Elizabeth P. Moreland, Gilley C. Bethall, Christopher Wayne Miller, Kitty Ann Thomas, Margaret A. Showers, Christopher Wayne Thomas, Isaac Hardin Pmé! certain Thomas, and Charles Henry Thomas, all of the state of Kentucky, and heirs at law of Christopher Miller, deceased, late of said state, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, without charge or payment, on any vacant or unappropriated lands of the United States now subject by law to private entry, one quarter section of land, each of the first seven named heirs separately, and the three last named heirs one quarter section jointly; and that a patent shall issue therefor, according to the prosvisions of the general law, Approved, June 17, 1844.

CHAP. CLIX.— An Act for the relief of Hiram Murch.

Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Hiram Murch the sum of fifty dollars, the