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THIRTY·THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58, 59, 60. 1855. 847 may take, receive, purchase, and hold estate, real, personal, and mixed, not exceeding in value one hundred thousand dollars at any one time, and may manage and dispose of the same at pleasure, and apply the same, or the proceeds of the sales thereof, to the uses and purposes of the said corporation, according to the rules and regulations which now are or may hereafter be established. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted', That Congress may at any time This ,,,,,,,1,,). hereafter alter, amend, or repeal the foregoing act. be umeudcd, Sto. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so B k. const;-ued'as to authorize the said corporation to issue any note, token, m g;§,§_°w` device, scrip, or other evidence of debt, to be used as a currency. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That each of the trustees in the said corporation shall be held liable in his or her individual capacity for all 1. T§“§§°°¤ li°bl° the debts and liabilities of the said company, however contracted or or ° E' incurred, to be recovered by suit, as other debts or liabilities, before any court of competent jurisdiction. Approved, February 6, 1855. CHA?. LVIII. - An Act for the Relizfqf T/zomas Marston Taylor. Feb, 6, 1855, Be it enacted by the Senate and lkuse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to M§(f£‘€sm°Qf °f allow to Thomas Marston Taylor, a purser in the United States navy, in the Thomas M. Tay- settlement of his accounts, for such deficiency as he shall show to exist l°1'· by reason of his making deposits of treasury notes in the Phoenix Bank, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, subsequent to the month of April, eighteen hundred and forty-two: Provided, That the said sum shall be received proviso in full of all demands against the government on this account. ` Approved, February 6, 1855. Cin?. LIX. —· An Act to increase the Pension ¢y`Patrick C'. M'Zes. Feb. 10, 1855. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- pension of ter-ior be, and he is hereby, directed to increase the pension of Patrick C. ratuck C. Miles Miles, (late a sergeant of Company K, first regiment of infantry, United “;‘;’°’;;‘;‘g&’ States army, and who lost a leg and was otherwise injured, while gallantly Em from J,,_¤_ 1, leading to the assault at the storming of Monterey,) to the rate of thirteen 1854- dollars per month, the amount of his duty pay; this increase to take effect from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and continue during his natural life. Am-Rovxm, February 10, 1855. Oulu. LX. — An Act for tim Relief of Samuel A. Belden and Company. pcb_ gg11g5g_ 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 and directed to audit and settle an account of the duties paid by Samuel A. Belden and Company, to the a §:;¤g¥*§tP*a:’{l officers of the United States charged with their collection, in the city of cfaimncf S_ A_ Matamoras, in the Republic of Mexico, whilst that city was in the military Belden and Gopossession of the United States, upon merchandise, except tobacco, imported by them into Matamoras during that period, which, after the restoration of peace between the two countries, they were deprived of, either in the form in which imported, or in the proceeds of sales, by illegal seizure, confiscation, sequestration, or their forced abandonment of the same by the judicial authorities of the Mexican government, and pay the