Certain priin New Mexico, vate land claims Certain rights bered forty-one, forty-two, forty-four, forty-six, and forty-seven, Territory of New Mexico, as known and designated by the numbers aforesaid in the reports of the surveyor-general of the said Territory and on the books confirmed. of the commissioner of the general land office, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed: Provided, That such confirmation shall only be construed as a quit-claim on [or] relinquishment of all title or claim on the part of the United States to any of the lands not improved by or on behalf of the United States, and not including any military or other reservation embraced in either of the said claims, and shall not affect the adverse rights of any person or persons to the same, or any part or parcel thereof. not affected. Claims to be SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner of the general land office shall, without unreasonable delay, cause the lands embraced in surveyed and platted, and patsaid several claims to be surveyed and platted, at the proper expense of ents to issue. the claim ints thereof, and upon the filing of said surveys and plats in his office he shall issue patents for said lands in said Territory which have heretofore been confirmed by acts of Congress and surveyed, and plats of such survey filed in his office as aforesaid, but for which no patents have heretofore been issued. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all surveys authorized by this act shall conform to and be connected with the public surveys of the United States in said Territories, so far as the same can be done consistently with the landmarks and boundaries specified in the several grants upon which said claims are founded: Provided, however, That when said lands are so confirmed, surveyed, and patented, they shall in each case be held and taken to be in full satisfaction of all further claims or demands against the United States. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. Surveys to conform to pub lic surveys. Proviso. Payment to Captain Charles CHAP. CLIII. - An Act for the Relief of Captain Charles Hunter, United States Navy. March 3, 1869. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay to Captain Charles Hunter, United States navy, Hunter. out of any monies [moneys] in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, pay as commander in the navy, on leave, from the twenty-second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, to the twenty-first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. WHEREAS on the tenth day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-five, a patent was issued to Wright Duryea, of the city, county, and State of New York, for a certain "card exhibitor," and that owing to circumstances beyond his control he has not, up to the present time, as it is alleged, derived either profit or emolument therefrom; and furthermore, being desirous of applying for a renewal of said patent, has been prevented by ill health from making the petition therefor within the time specified by law: Therefore, March 3, 1869. Preamble. yea may apply B it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of Wright Durpatents is hereby authorized and empowered to receive the application for renewal of for the renewal of said patent, in the same manner and with the same patent. effect as though the time had not passed which is specified by law within which applications for the extensions of patents are required to be made : Provided, That no person who may make or use said "card exhibitor," after the expiration of said patent and before an extension thereof shall be granted by said commissioner, shall be liable to any action or damages therefor. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. Proviso. March 8, 1869. Mary A. Filler may receive back pay due Henry Drenning. March 1869. Part of judg ment to be refunded to the CHAP. CLV. — An Act for the Relief of Mary A. Filler. WHEREAS Sergeant Henry Drenning, late of company K, fifty-fifth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, was killed at Cold Harbor, in Virginia, on the third day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, leaving no widow, [and] no heirs lineal or collateral; and whereas the Henry Drenning was the adopted and foster-son from childhood of Mrs. Mary A. Filler: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Mary A. Filler, fostermother of said Henry Drenning, shall be entitled to receive the back pay due to the said Henry Drenning at the time of his death, and the bounty to which he would have been entitled by law. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. CHAP. CLVI.—An Act for the Relief of the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to examine a judgment by confession, Illinois Iron and rendered on the second day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, Bolt Company. in the circuit court of the northern district of Illinois, against the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company for five thousand and five hundred dollars, penalties for certain alleged violations of the internal revenue laws, and to refund to the said Illinois Iron and Bolt Company so much of the amount paid into the treasury of the United States, not exceeding twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars, as upon investigation he may think it right and proper under the circumstances of the case to remit. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. March 3, 1869. 1847, ch. 8, § 9. 1852, ch. 19, § Vol. x. p. 3. 1. CHAP. CLVII. - An Act for the Relief of Henry Barricklow. WHEREAS, on the twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, by the sinking of the steamboat "Nat. Holmes," in the Ohio river, near the city of Aurora, Indiana, Henry Barricklow lost the following described twenty-three land warrants, to wit: Numbers fifty-three thousand nine hundred and eleven, eighty thousand two hundred and eighty-five, eighty thousand three hundred and nine, and eighty thousand three hundred and forty-one, issued under the act of February eleventh, Vol. ix. p. 125. eighteen hundred and forty-seven; number seven hundred and ninety, issued under act of March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fiftytwo; and numbers thirty-one thousand and seventy-eight, thirty-four thousand two hundred and sixty-six, forty-four thousand and thirtyseven, forty-nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-six, fifty-five thou sand one hundred and thirty-two, fifty-seven thousand three hundred and thirteen, sixty thousand one hundred and one, sixty thousand four hundred and eleven, sixty-two thousand four hundred and eighty-eight, sixty-six thousand four hundred and eighty-one, seventy-one thousand three hundred and fifty-seven, eighty thousand and forty-three, eighty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-three, eighty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty, eighty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-one, eighty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, eighty-two thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and eighty-four thousand four hundred and 1855, ch. 207. eighty-nine, [issued under] act of March third, eighteen hundred and Vol. x. p. 701. fifty-five; each for one hundred and sixty acres: and whereas duplicates of said warrants have been issued by the commissioner of pensions and delivered to said Barricklew: Therefore, Henry Bar Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That said Henry Barricklow is locate, &c. cer- hereby authorized to locate, or sell and assign, said duplicate land war ricklow may tain duplicate land warrants. rants in the same manner as if the same had been issued in his name, and patents shall be issued by the commissioner of the general land office, on the location of said duplicate warrants, as in case of other land war rants. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. CHAP. CLVIII. - An Act for the Relief of certain Companies of Scouts and Guides March 3, 1869. organized in Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Captain H. J. Springfield's Payment to company of scouts and guides, numbering forty-two officers and men, and Captain H. J. Springfield's and Captain John B. Kennamer's company of scouts and guides, numbering Captain John B. thirty-three officers and men, organized in northern Alabama, under Kennainer's orders of Brigadier-General R. S. Granger, commanding the district of companies of northern Alabama, approved by Major-General George H. Thomas, guides. commanding the department of the Cumberland, shall be entitled to receive pay for their services from the date when they respectively joined such companies to the date when they were relieved from duty, respectively, at the price fixed by order of General Thomas, to wit: captains, three dollars; lieutenants, two dollars; sergeants, one dollar and fifty cents; and privates, one dollar per day; the value of the clothing received by each of said scouts and guides to be deducted from the amount due them respectively. And if either of said scouts or guides is dead, or shall die before receiving the amount due him, his heirs or other legal representatives shall be entitled to receive the same. Clothing received to be de ducted. Heirs, &c. if any dead, to receive the amount due Accounts how SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in auditing and paying the deceased. foregoing accounts, the rolls of said companies now on file in the office of to be audited the adjutant-general of the army shall be the data to guide the account- and paid. ing officers; and said claims shall, when audited, be paid by the paymaster-general out of any money heretofore appropriated, or that may hereafter be appropriated, for the pay of the army. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all other companies or parts of companies of scouts and guides organized or employed by General R. S. Granger under authority of or by the approval of Major-General George H. Thomas, commanding department of the Cumberland, be entitled to the same relief as provided for the companies named in the first section of this act Provided, however, That before such payment satisfactory evidence of service shall be furnished by claimants and approved by the Secretary of War. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. CHAP. CLIX. Other scouts and guides to have like payment upon satisfactory proof. An Act granting a Pension to Madge K. Guthrie and Robert B. March 3, 18C9. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Pension to Madge K. Guth 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 rie and Robert roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the B. Guthrie. names of Madge K. Guthrie and Robert B. Guthrie, children of Presley N. Guthrie, late a captain in the United States army, and pay them, or their authorized guardian or guardians, a pension of twenty dollars per month, commencing May second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and continuing until November eleven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and afterwards to the said Robert, or his guardian or guardians, until October twenty-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, when he will attain the age of sixteen years. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. March 3, 1869. Pension to low. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the InteLemuel Bartho- 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 Lemuel Bartholow, late a private in company G, of the one hundred and twenty-sixth regiment of Ohio volunteers, and pay him a pension, commencing January third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. March 3, 1869. CHAP. CLXI. An Act for the Relief of Lieutenant-Colonel John W. Davidson, of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United March 3, 1869. CHAP. CLXII.-An Act for the Relief of the Heirs and legal Representatives of Charles C. Cook, deceased. Payment to heirs, &c. of Charles C. Cook. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the paymaster-general is hereby directed to pay to the heirs or legal representatives of Charles C. Cook, deceased, formerly of company C, seventy-seventh regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, the full pay and allowances of a second lieutenant of infantry, from the first day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, until the sixth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, when he died from wounds received in battle, deducting therefrom, however, such sums as may have been already paid to Charles C. Cook for his military services during that period. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. March 3, 1869. CHAP. CLXIII. An Act to confirm certain private Land Claims in the State of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims of the legal representatives of Gabriel Cerre and Sophia Bolaye, falling within the exterior boundaries of the commons of Carondelet, the former entered as number sixty, for four hundred arpens, and the latter as number two hundred and seventy-nine, for one hundred and fifty arpens, in the first class of decisions of the board of land commissioners under the acts of Congress approved ninth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, for the adjustment of private land claims in Missouri, as recommended by said board, (H. Ex. Doc. 59, 1st session 24th Congress, p. 187, and S. Doc. 16, same session, page 40,) which claims were confirmed by the act of Congress approved fourth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, subject to location elsewhere than in place in case of conflict, (Stat. L., vol. 5, page 126,) be, and the same are hereby, confirmed in place, subject to any valid adverse rights, if such exist, and patents for said claims shall be issued accordingly. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. CHAP. CLXIV. - An Act granting a Pension to Mary A. Davis, Widow of William March 3, 1869. P. Davis, a Private of the Eighteenth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, in the War of eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Pension to Mary A. Davis; 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 is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension rolls the name of Mary A. Davis, widow of William P. Davis, deceased, a private in the eighteenth regiment of the Indiana volunteers of the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and that she be paid a pension allowed a private during her widowhood, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, to commence on the ninth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and in case of her death or marriage, then the to be paid to pension to be paid to the minor children of the said William P. Davis, of William P. deceased, under sixteen years of age, subject to the provisions and limita- Davis, in case of tions of the general pension laws. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. minor children her death or marriage. CHAP. CLXV. — An Act for the Relief of Peter McGough, Collector of Internal March 3, 1869. Revenue and disbursing Agent, Twentieth District, Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting Credit to be officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow to allowed to Peter McGough. Peter McGough, collector and disbursing agent of the twentieth internal revenue district of Pennsylvania, a credit for the sum of four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-four cents, public money deposited in pursuance of law in the Venango National Bank, late a United States designated depository, and lost by the failure of said bank, without fault or neglect of the said collector and disbursing agent. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. CHAP. CLXVI. An Act granting a Pension to Sarah E. Haines. 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 roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Sarah E. Haines, widow of George H. Haines, late a private in company K, eighteenth regiment Missouri volunteers, and to pay her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and to continue during her widowhood. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. March 3, 1869. Pension to Sarah E. Haines. CHAP. CLXVII. — An Act granting a Pension to Horace Peck, of Charlton, Massa- March 3, 1869. chusetts. 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 roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Horace Peck, of Charlton, Massachusetts, and to pay him a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twentyfourth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to continue during his natural life. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. CHAP. CLXVIII. · An Act granting a Pension to Benjamin T. Raines of Indiana. Pension to Horace Peck. March 3, 1869. |
