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F ORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ras. 5T, 52, 56, 58. 1870. ($65 by fire on the night of the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred ’°Hlm°°'° *°*`*”*‘ and sixty-nine. 3`gt**]°;€PL°°%N Approved, May 5, 1870. y ° [N0. 52.] A Resolution authorizing the President to strike from the Rolls of the Army the May 5, 1870. Names of certain Ojieers. """‘_—‘“" Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Li¤¤*¤¤¤¤¤ of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is 2;hIi$m_}1°§;,_ hereby, authorized to drop from the rolls of the army Lieutenant W. terson drdpped Barnhart, first lieutenant fourth cavalry, and W. J. Patterson, first lieu- {mm *1*** ***1* °‘ tenant fifth artillery. th° "my’ Approved, May 5, 1870. [N0. 56.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of Roswell M. Shurtlzg of New York. Mav 6, 1870, Be it resolved bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting P¤ym¤¤W¤ officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, required to audit and pay to Roswell M. Shurtlefh of New York city, as first lieutenant and adjutant I of the naval brigade and union coast guard, organized in May, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, by Colonel Washington A. Bartlett, of New York, the pay and emoluments of first lieutenant and adjutant, for military service rendered by him without having been mustered into the United States service, from May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, deducting therefrom the amount received by him from the United States as a prisoner of war at Richmond, Virginia. Approved, May 6, 1870. [No. 58.] A Resolution jbr the Relieftfeertain Officers of Volunteers. May 7, 1870, Resolved by the Senate and Mme <y" Representatives ¢y" the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in every case in which a commis- C¤*]¤i¤l<>¥’¤i· sioned officer or enlisted man was detached from his regiment in pur- €§;S°t0`];),;_x]: suance of orders from the War Department, and directed to report to lowed pay and Brigadier-General Daniel Ullman, in New York city, with a view to °“‘°l“m°“l“‘ being mustered as a commissioned officer in the brigade which General Ullman was authorized by the War Department to raise, and who actually reported in New York, without neglect or delay on his part, and under orders from his superior officers entered on duty as a commissioned omcer, and was afterwards actually mustered, but by reason of there being no legal vacancy, or from other cause beyond his control, and without his own fault or neglect, was not mustered in as a commissioned officer of the date he reported at General Ullman’s head-quarters, the War Department, after an examination of the facts in each case, shall allow him full pay and emoluments for the rank to which he was assigned, and in which he served, from the date on which he reported at the aforesaid head-quarters, deducting therefrom all pay, allowances, and emoluments actually received for such period; and in case of the death of any such commissioned officer or enlisted man prior to or after muster or after honorable discharge, his heirs or legal representatives shall be entitled to the pay and allowances of the rank in which such commissioned officer or enlisted man actually served, deducting all pay and allowances received by him or them for such period, Approved, May 7, 1870.