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Feb. 19, 1869. CHAP. XLI.— An Act for the Relief of the Estate of Isaac Philips, deceased, who was a Private in the Revolutionary War.

Payment to Sally Philips.

Feb. 22, 1869.

eral to examine claim of Nott and Company.

Claim to be paid, if, &c.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid out of the pension fund, or out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Sally Philips, daughter-in-law of Isaac Philips, deceased, the sum of five hundred dollars, which is to be in full for all pension claim that was due from the United States to said Isaac Philips, a private in the Revolutionary war, said Sally Philips having nursed and taken care of him in his declining years.

APPROVED, February 19, 1869.

CHAP. XLIV.- An Act for the Relief of Nott and Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Attorney-Gen States of America in Congress assembled, That the Attorney-General be, and he is hereby, directed to examine the claim of Nott and Company, American merchants trading and doing business in China, against the Chinese government, for losses of coin sustained in eighteen hundred and fifty-seven by the capture and robbery of the vessel called the "Neva"; and that, if in his opinion the said claim ought to be paid, he is hereby authorized and instructed to order the same to be paid, with the rate of interest allowed on other claims from the time of such loss, out of any funds received from the Chinese government, under the treaty of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, for the payment of losses sustained by American citizens; and that the said amount be paid to the said Nott and Company, or the surviving copartner or copartners, or any person duly authorized to be their agent or attorney, from the fund now held by the Secretary of State.

Decision of the Attorney-Gen

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the decision of the said Attoreral to be final. ney-General as to the right of said claimants to be paid, as to the amount to be paid, and as to the parties entitled to receive the same, shall be final and conclusive.

Feb. 25, 1869. 1860, ch. 167. Vol. xii. p. 71.

Claims of Cornelio Vigil and Cram St. Vrain

to be adjusted;

of all actual

APPROVED, February 22, 1869.

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CHAP. XLVII. - An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to confirm certain private
Land Claims in the Territory of New Mexico."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the exterior lines of the Cornelio Vigil and Cram St. Vrain claims of eleven leagues each, subject to claims derived from said parties as confirmed by the act of Congress approved twenty-first June, eighteen hundred and sixty, United States Statutes, volume twelve, page seventy-one, shall be adjusted according to the lines of the public surveys, as nearly as practicable, with the limits of said claims, yet in as compact a form as possible; and the claims of settlers on, &c. all actual settlers upon the tracts heretofore claimed by the said Vigil and St. Vrain, holding possession under titles or promises to settle, which have been made by said Vigil and St. Vrain, or their legal representatives prior to the passage of this act, who may establish their claims within one year from the passage of this act, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the proper land district, shall in like manner be adjusted according to the subdivisional lines of survey, so as to include the lands so settled upon or purchased, and the areas of the same shall be deducted and excluded from the adjusted limits of the claims of said Vigil and St. Vrain respectively; and the claims of all other actual setand pre-emption tlers falling within the limits of the located claims of Vigil and St. Vrain shall be adjusted to the extent which shall embrace their several settlements upon their several claims being established either as pre-emption

Homestead

claims.

or homesteads, according to law; and for the aggregate of the areas of the latter class of claims the said Vigil and St. Vrain, or their legal representatives, shall be entitled to locate a like quantity of public lands, not mineral, according to the lines of the public surveys, and not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres in one section.

run.

Cost thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the gen- Lines of public eral land office to cause the lines of the public surveys to be run in the surveys to be regions where a proper location would place the said Vigil and St. Vrain claims, and that the expense of the same shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; yet, before the confirmation of the said act of June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty, shall become legally effective, the said Vigil and St. Vrain, or their legal representatives, shall pay the cost of so much of said surveys as enures to their benefit respectively, and that all settlers of the said third class, Improvements whose claims may be adjusted as valid, shall have the right to enter of certain settheir improvements by a strict compliance with the pre-emption or homestead laws.

tlers.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That upon the adjustment of the Plats to claimVigil and St. Vrain claims according to the provisions of this act, it shall ants. be the duty of the surveyor-general of the district to furnish proper approved plats to said claimants, or their legal representatives, and so in like manner to said derivative claimants, which shall be evidence of title, the same to be done according to such instructions as may be given by the commisssioner of the general land office.

notice that the

select and locate

abandoned

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That immediately upon running the Surveyor-genlines as provided in section second of this act, the surveyor-general of eral to give said district shall notify the said Vigil and St. Vrain, or their agents or survey is being legal representatives, of the fact of such survey being made, and said made. claimants shall, within three months after notice of such survey, select Claimants to and locate their said claims in accordance with such survey and the pro- is within visions of this act and of the act to which this is amendatory, so far as three months, or the same is not changed by this act, and shall within said time furnish be held to have the surveyor-general with the description of such location, specifying the them. lines of the same. And the party failing to make such selection and location, in such manner and within such time, shall be deemed and held to have abandoned their claim, and their rights and equities under this act, and the act to which this is amendatory, shall cease and terminate. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That in case of the neglect or refusal of the said Vigil and St. Vrain, or either of them, to accept of the provisions of this act, and the act to which this is amendatory, and to locate their said claims, as provided therein, no suit shall be brought or proceedings instituted in any of the courts of the United States, by such party or by any one claiming through or under them, to establish or enforce said claims, or for any cause of action founded upon the same, after six months from the passage of this act. APPROVED, February 25, 1869.

CHAP. LVIII. — An Act for the Relief of Walter D. Plowden.

No suit to be brought, if, &c.

March 1, 1869.

Walter D. Plowden.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Payment to ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Walter D. Plowden, a colored scout and spy, the sum of one thousand dollars, for military services rendered the army of the United States, under MajorGeneral Hunter, in the military district of South Carolina, in the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for the suppression of the rebellion. APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

March 1, 1869.

Payment of Captain Goldman Bryson's company of

mounted volunteers.

March 1, 1869.

by Moses F.

Shinn con

CHAP. LIX. — An Act providing for the Payment of Captain Goldman Bryson's
Mounted Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the company of mounted volunteers raised and commanded by Captain Goldman Bryson, of Cherokee county, State of North Carolina, under authority of Major-General Rosecrans, and received into the service of the United States by MajorGeneral Burnside, September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixtythree, and such men as were accepted into the service of the United States by the said Captain Goldman Bryson within one month thereafter, and the widows, heirs, and legal representatives of the officers and enlisted men, shall be entitled to pay, bounty, pension, and allowances according to their grade and time of service as other volunteers in the service of the United States, notwithstanding any informality in their muster or enlistment into the service of the United States, under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the proper accounting officer of the treasury.

APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

CHAP. LX.

- An Act to confirm an Entry of Land by Moses F. Shinn. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Entry of land States of America in Congress assembled, That the entry by Moses F. Shinn, of the northeast quarter of section sixteen, in township fifteen, north of range thirteen east, in the district of lands subject to sale at Omaha, Nebraska, made on the twenty-second day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, by cash certificate number one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, be and the same is hereby confirmed. APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

firmed.

March 1, 1869.

Pension to Charles Mains.

March 1, 1869.

Pension to Joseph M. Hud

son

March 1, 1869.

Pension to William M. Simpson.

CHAP. LXI.

An Act granting a Pension to Charles Mains, of Tennessee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to inscribe on the pension rolls the name of Charles Mains, of Johnson county, Tennessee, and that he be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

CHAP. LXII. · An Act granting a Pension to Joseph M. Hudson.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he i. hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Joseph M. Hudson, late a private in company E, ninety-first regiment Ohio infantry volunteers, on the pension roll, subject to the provisions of the pension laws, to commence from the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

CHAP. LXIII. — An Act granting a Pension to William M. Simpson.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of William M. Simpson, late a private in company E, seventy-first regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry, and pay him a pension, commencing October twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

CHAP. LXIV. — An Act granting a Pension to Mrs. Susan Carson.

March 1, 1869.

Pension to

son.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Mrs. Susan Car- Mrs. Susan Carson, of Cottonwood Grove, Bond county, Illinois, widow of Robert G. Carson, deceased, on the pension roll, and that he pay her a pension, at the rate of eight dollars per month, during her widowhood, commencing on the second day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the date of her husband's death. This act shall entitle the said Susan Carson to the 1866, ch. 235, § 2. benefit of the second section of the act approved July twenty-fifth, Vol. xiv. p. 230. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in regard to the minor children of deceased soldiers, to wit: for the following-named children: Frances A., born September first, eighteen hundred and fifty-four; John A., born May twentysecond, eighteen hundred and fifty-six; Kansas A., born July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; Louisa C., born December sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine; and Sarah J., born November fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as would entitle her to the benefit of said section.

APPROVED, March 1, 1869..

CHAP. LXV. — An Act granting a Pension to Mrs. Naomi Adams.

March 1, 1869.

Pension to

Adams.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior cause the name of Mrs. Naomi Adams, mother of G. W. Adams, late Mrs Naomi a private in company G, thirty-ninth Missouri infantry volunteers, to be placed on the pension rolls at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence September twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and to continue during her widowhood. APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

CHAP. LXVI. —An Act granting a Pension to Charlotte Webster, Widow of Timothy March 1, 1869. Webster, deceased.

Pension to Charlotte Web

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension ster. roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Charlotte Webster, widow of Timothy Webster, deceased, who was in the secret service of the United States, arrested by the rebels and executed at Richmond on the thirteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, and that she be paid out of the pension fund during her widowhood the sum of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

CHAP. LXVII. An Act granting a Pension to Mary R. Brown.

March 1, 1869.

Pension to

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension Mary R. Brownroll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mary R. Brown, step-mother of Benjamin R. Brown, late a member of company F, sixth regiment of United States infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

March 1, 1869.

Pension of William H. Johnson increased.

CHAP. LXVIII. — An Act to increase the Pension of William H. Johnson.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pension heretofore granted to William H. Johnson, late a private in the United States navy, be, and the same is hereby, increased from three dollars and fifty cents to eight dollars per month, and that he be paid at that rate, to commence on the first of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and that the Secretary of the Interior is directed to have it so entered in the department, to be subject, in all respects, to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws passed in relation to soldiers of the late war to put down the rebellion, known as the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one. APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

March 1, 1869. CHAP. LXIX.- An Act granting back Pension to Edmund W. Wandell, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.

Preamble.

Back pension

to Edmund W. Wandell.

1868, ch. 264, § Ante, p. 236.

Whereas the said Edmund W. Wandell entered as a private in company I, first regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, in the war with Mexico, and served to the close of that war in eighteen hundred and forty-eight, when he received an honorable discharge; that owing to disease contracted in said service his name in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four was placed upon the pension rolls at the rate of eight dollars per month; that in November, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, he raised a company and was commissioned as captain of company G, of the one hundred and forty-third regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, in the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one; that on the seventh day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, he was honorably discharged for disability contracted in the Mexican war, and on application his pension was restored, but only from February, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, instead of from date of his discharge: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sixth section of the act of Congress entitled "An act relating to pensions," approved July 6. twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, made applicable to the case of said Edmund W. Wandell. APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

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March 1, 1869. CHAP. LXX. An Act granting a Pension to Katharine Dreyer, Widow of Sylvester Dreyer, deceased, late Private of Company H, of the Tenth Regiment of Minnesota Vol

Pension to Katharine

Dreyer.

unteers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That under the provisions of the pension laws of the United States the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, required to place upon the pension roll the name of Katharine Dreyer, widow of Sylvester Dreyer, deceased, late a private in company H, of the tenth regiment of Minnesota volunteers, who died at Alton, Illinois, on the eighteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, leaving surviving said widow and issue, two children, to wit, William, born November eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and Augustus, born June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and that she be paid the pension during her widowhood, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, besides the sum allowed for minor children of deceased soldiers under the age of sixteen years under existing laws.

APPROVED, March 1, 1869.

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