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'1`HIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. RES. 2, 21, 22. 1865. 603 RESOLUTIONS. ]No. 2.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary ry' the Treasury to dispose of certain Dec. 15, 1864. Moneys therein mentioned. "'_1_` Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Certain money ury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay over to Henry C. De Ahna *****1;; be Paid <>V<** the sum of two thousand dollars, deposited by said De Ahna with Jay lihngnry C' D° Cook and Company to the credit of C. V. Hogan, an employee in the secret service of the Treasury Department, or any part thereof, or to cause the whole or part of the same to be confiscated and paid over to the treasury of the United States, as, in the judgment of the Secretary, may appear Just. Approved, December 15, 1864. [No. 21,] Joint Resolution in the Matter of Sergeant Daniel Collett, Jr., deceased. Fgb_ 25, 1355_ Be it resolved bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ i States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be Dam, Colm, directed to cause the name of Daniel Collett, Jr., who died of wounds re- ,3,,, deceased, t0` ceived in battle, to be entered and borne upon the rolls of the army as a be ¤¤ mus 0* first lieutenant of the fortieth regiment of Ohio volunteer infantry, from E;Té,?:nEr§;c_ the ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the date to which i he was commissioned to that office by the governor of the State of Ohio, the same as if he had been on that day mustered in as such first lieutenant. Approved, February 25, 1865. [No. 22.] A ltesolutionjbr the Reliq of James B. Royce. Feb. 25, 186.5. WHEREAS, James B. Royce, of the town of Shrewsbury and State of preamble_ Vermont, entered the service of the United States as a private in company I, seventh regiment of Vermont volunteers, on the tenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and continued to serve in said company and regiment until the tenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, on which day, at Fort Barrancas, Florida, by the premature discharge of a cannon at which he was engaged in target practice, he received injuries which resulted in the loss of his left arm and lct't eye, by reason of which disabilities he was discharged from the service on the fourth of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, having served twenty-one months and twenty-two days; and whereas, by reason of not having been discharged for wounds actually received in battle, he is not entitled to the benefit of the act entitled “An act to amend an act entitlecl ‘An act to authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in en- 1861 ch 9 forcing the laws and protecting public property,’ approved July twenty- vO],§;;g_`p_`g6g_ two, eighteen hundred and sixty-one," approved March third, eighteen 1863,cn.84. hundred and sixty-three; and whereas his case comes within the spirit V°l·x“·P·758· and intent of said act: Therefore, Resolved bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the said James B. Royce, J_¤s· B- Royce of Shrewsbury, Vermont, be, and ho is hereby, declared entitled to the t°