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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 85, 86, 87, 88. 1857. 507 hundred and thirteen, by the British, in consequence of his employment of the sloap in the conveyance of American troops upon the River St. Lawrence. Approved, March 2, 1857. CHAP. LXXXV.—An Act for the Relkfof Samuel S. Haight. March 2, 1857. Be it enacted by the'Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting _ officers of the treasury adjust and settle the claim of Samuel S. Haight, S °,§;’l;'hQf,§’·',f’_; for his services and expenses in mustering into service, and marching to mlditgd md mt., the New York frontier, his command, under orders from General Amos Wd- Hall, during the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, when said Haight was colonel of the first brigade of New York State militia. Approved, March 2, 1857. CHAP. LXXXVL-—An Act for the Benent of Anthony Devil, hzte a Sergeant in the March 2, 1867. Third of United States Army. _""`“"" 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 the name of Anthony Devit, late a serjeant of the third artillery of the United States Anthony Devit army, and now at the western military asylum, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, ;nl;§,}°1“$? Z'; upon the invalid pension roll, at seventeen dollars per month, beginning an pa- mom]. on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and to con- f?? fJ¤;£ It tinue during his natural life, or the existence of his present disability. 1 6’ °" °' Approved, March 2, 1857. Gun. LXXXVII.—An Act to rdmburse the Estate of Joseph McClure, a Paymaster in March 2, 1857. the War of eighteen hundred and twelve. --···—j··‘ 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 pay to David McClure, administrator of Joseph McClure, a regimental paymas- $§5{·36D*° MM ter in Colonel Warren’s regiment of New York militia in the war of $1,,.,,, ° ,,d,,,,,,,; eighteen hundred and twelve, the sum of five hundred and fifty-one dol- tutor of J. Mclars and thirty-six cents, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise C1“’°‘ appropriated, the same being the amount of a judgment paid by said McClure to the United States for moneys paid out by him, for which the vouchers were burned, but which was paid by him to his regiment. Approved, March 2, 1857. CHAP. Act f7I' HIC QfD0h7I Piatt. March 3, 1857. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United U States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby directed to pay out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Donn Piatt, late acting charge 32,114.fo be paid d’afi"aires of the United States at Paris, the sum of two thousand one °° D°““ mm' hundred and fourteen dollars, it being the amount of the difference between the salary received by him as secretary of legation at Paris and that of charge d’aifaires, for the term of fourteen days in October, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and from the twenty-sixth day of December, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-four, unt.il the first day of May, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and also from the third to the eleventh day of September, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-five. Approved, March 3, 1857.