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 932 TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Ssss.I. Ch. 168. R.ss.7',8. 1844. ber, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and which fines were paid by the said Sands before the remission of the same could take effect. Armzovsn, June 17, 1844. S·ruv·rz I. June 17, 1844. CHAP. CLXVII1.-An det for the relief of Amos Prnrtor. Be it enacted, dw., That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and Claim for pm hereby are, authorized and directed to adjust and settle, on equitable °f ¤PP¤'¤iS—•=d _ principles, the claim of Amos Proctor, of one half of one moiety of the vzmgiiigmu appraised value of the goods seized and libelled upon his information, gm, to be l and released from forfeiture by virtue of the act of April twenty-seven, ¤°“l¤d- _ eighteen hundred and sixteen, as set forth in his claim, and that the 2‘.?°{8%A§,;l1 same be paid to him, or his legal representatives, out of any money in 108. ithe treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 17, 1844. RESOLUTIONS. May 31. 1844- No. 7. Joint Resolution to authorize the Postmaster-General to re-examine certain _;; claims, and to allow one month's extra pay to certain mail contractors. , Resolved, <§·c., That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and John R.JetTer- required to examine the claims of John R. Jefferson and others, late 3*;;:3 gah6m mail contractors, for one month's extra pay, arising under different orders ,,,0,,,h,S 6;,,, of the Postmaster·General, in the years one thousand eight hundred and pay. thirty-eight and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, suspending, for a temporary period, the mail service of said claimants, with a corresponding deduction of mail pay, as reported to Congress, as the same appears in printed document number one hundred and forty-nine, of the House of Representatives; and, on such examination, to allow one month’s extra pay to each of the above-named claimants, whose mail service was so temporarily suspended, on such suspended service Proviso. and deduction, estimating the said pay as made annually: Provided, That the said Postmaster-General shall be satisfied said allowance has not already been made; and that the particular claimant did not request said suspension, nor abandon nor assign his contract within the period of the said suspension; that the respective sums so found to be paid out of the appropriation made on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, in an act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department, in such form and manner as are required in Aetof July 2, other cases, by the act of July second, one thousand eight hundred and 183% °h· 270- thirty-six, for reorganizing the Post Office Department, Sec. Approved, May 31, 1844. May 3i_ 1844_ No. 8. J2 Resolution explanatory ey" “An act for the relief ry' Mary W7lliams, --4-- widow of the lute Jacob Williarns, deceased? Resolved, rfc,. That in carrying into effect an act approved the first Actgf Mami, day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, entitled 1. !843. ¤l¤· 66. "An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of Jacob Williams, de- lows pension entitled had he been living on the seventh day of June, one thousand f<>f {Wo Y¤¤¤’ eight hundred and thirty-two, be deemed and the same is hereby de- “°"'°°“‘ clared to be, a pension for two years? service, and that the Secretary of War interpret said act accordingly. Armtovnn, May 31, 1844.
 * ‘;,:;ds;S°f_;‘;,,_ ceased," the pension to which said Jacob Williams would have been