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934 FORTY-NIN TH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 423-426. 1887. roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Peter P. Hoffman, late a private in Company H, Second Regiment New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers. Approved, March 3, 1887. . Mar. 3, 1887. CHAP. 424.-An act to increase the pension of Lewis M. Strong. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United L¤Wi¤M· Strong- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior c¤;‘;;,“‘°“ I1" 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 Lewis M. Strong, late of Company K, Third Regiment Vermont Volunteers, now a pensioner, at the rate of forty dollars per month. Approved, March 3, 1887. Mar. 3, 1887. CHAP. 4-25.-An act for the relief of Isaac Crawford. Preamble- Whereas, Company]? of the Third Tennessee Mounted Infantry was, its time having expired, mustered out of service, so far as the records of the company show, on the thirtieth of November, eighteen hundred · and sixty-four, but on the same day, and before disbandment, was ordered from Knoxville, Tennessee, to the neighboring count y of Greene, to repel a force of the enemy ; and Whereas, Isaac Crawibrd, a member of said company, while strictly obeying orders, was captured in actual conilict and taken as a prisoner of war to Richmond, Virginia, and there held until exchanged on March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqiresentatives of the United Isaac Crawford- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Adjutant-General of Mmgdw ’°°°’d the Army be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant an °°"°° ‘ honorable discharge to the said Isaac Crawford, to date from March Y twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive, in place of the discharge granted him dated November thirtieth, eighteen hundred and , sixty-four. Approved, March 3, 1887. Mar. 3, 1887. CHAP. 426.-An act Directing the Secretary of War to cause the name of Fred B.


;- Barnes tobe entered as a private on the muster~roll of Company I, Seventh Tennessee

Cavalry, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United §`,{*;$¥· B- Bang, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, mnlétgdry '°°° and he is hereby, directed to place on the mnsterroll of Company I, ' Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, the name of Fred. B. Barnes, as private, as of the first day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, with the following remarks: “Captured by the Confederates with his regiment on the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at Union City, Tennessee, and sent to Andersonville, Georgia, where he died in prison of chronic diarrhcea, February sixteenth, eighteen hun- P¤Si»l>0¤¤fy,¢¢¢·, dred and sixty-five."And the proper accounting officers of the Treasury

  • ° h°‘”· are hereby authorized and directed to settle the accounts of the said

Fred. B. Barnes for pay, bounty, and commutations of rations from February iirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, deducting any and all payments which ·may have been made him, and pay the same to the heirs of said Barnes. And so much money as may be necessary therefor, in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated for such purpose. Approved, March 3, 1887.