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PRIVATE ACTS OE THE THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS or run UNITED STATES. Passed at the second session, which was begun and holden °at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifth day of December, A. D. 1864, and ended Saturday, the fourth day of Marcin, A. D. 1865. ABRAHAM Lmoow, President. HANNIBAL HAMLIN, Vice-President, and President of the Senate. DAMEL CLARK was elected President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the ninth day of February, and so acted until and including the nineteenth day of that month. Souuunn COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Gnu. IV.-—An Act for the Relief of William H. J'ameson,a Paymaster in the United Dw 20, 186% tates Army. "'“""""" Be it enacted ln; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting credit to bg ofiicers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, required to allowed Wllll¤¤¤ allow Major William H. Jameson, on settlement of his accounts, a credit gpggxgsglzflu of nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fourteen cents, for money in his accounts, it) &c. hands as paymaster in the army, on board the steamer Ruth, and destroyed by fire on the night of the fourth of August, eighteen hundred and sixty- three, it, on examining the evidence by the paymaster-general, he, the said paymaster-general, shall deem him justly entitled to said credit; but such credit shall not be allowed without the said paymaster-general shall certify his approval thereoh Approved, December 20, 1864. CHAP. V. -—An Act for the Relief of George W. Murray. Dec. 20, 1864. Be it enacted [ry the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of pen- Pension to sions be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to George W. Murray the pen- §[°°’S° W- sion to which he was entitled by the act of congress approved on the umm third of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, entitled 1837, eh. 38. “An act for the more equitable administration of the navy pension fund." V°r "· P· 18°· Approved, December 20, 1864. CnA1·. VII. —An Act for the Relief of Deborah Jones. pw 21, 1364, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Pension to rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of D€l><1'¤l¤ ·l°¤°¤· Deborah Jones, the widow of the late Captain Ezekiel Jones, and of the county of Oneida, and the State of New York, upon the pension roll, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, according to the provisions of the act to grant pensions, approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- 1862, ch. 166. two, and that said pension shall commence from the sixth day of November, V°r ‘“· P· 56* eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Arrnovisn December 21, 1864. 50 *