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1510 _ FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 77, 85, 90. 1899. Whereas the said bark William was condemned as lawful prize in the admiralty court of Key West, Florida, and it was adjudged by said admiralty court that said Lieutenant Eggleston was entitled to three hundred and twenty dollars as prize money; and Whereas the said amount of money is now in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Lieutenant Eggleston; and Whereas the First Auditor of the Treasury declines to pay over to said Lieutenant Eggleston the money adjudged by the admiralty court to be his lawful prize money on account of said capture and said adjudgment in admiralty; and Whereas this matter was, by the First Auditor of the Treasury, submitted to the then Attorney-General of the United States, who on the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, gave -his opinion that said money could not be paid to said Lieutenant Eggleston except it be authorized by an act of Congress: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United m°l;;¥m°¤**°·°fP*'i'° States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the y' Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to said J. B. Eggleston, lieutenant as aforesaid, the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- P printed, being by the court in admiralty adjudged to be the amount due to said Eggleston, lieutenant as aforesaid, as lawful prize. mm Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. ‘ Received by the President, January 18, 1899. · [Norm nr mm Dmrsnrmmnr on SrA&rn.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without hi approval.] F¤l¤l’¤¤'y$J!P· CHAP. 85.-—-An Act For the relief of Oliver C. Bosbyshell, late superintendent W United States mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R esentatives o the United ’ g§1‘{Q§fd¥f:,§{{Q*§{{; States of America in Congress assembled, Teiigt Oliver C.jE0sbyshell, mw xuggm late superintendent of the United States mint at Philadelphia, is hereby ,u,‘}f,‘,,f relieved and discharged from all liability for the acts of Henry S. Cochran, late weigh clerk of said United States mint at Philadelphia, in the embezzlement or larceny of certain gold-bullion bars, the property of the United States aforesaid, and from all liability to account for any and all embezzled or stolen gold-bullion bars by the said Henry S. Cochran, as aforesaid, the same having been without the default or negligence of the said Oliver C. Bosbysbell. _ Approved, February 2, 1899. February 4. 1899- CHAP. 90.-—An Act Granting an increase of pension to John H, Smbom. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United {gg 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 John H. Sanborn, late assistant surgeon of the ' Twelfth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and pay him a pension at the rate of twenty-four dollars per month, in lieu of that he_ s now receiving. Approved, February 4, 1899.