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730 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 142-146. 1873

§`cb.14, 1873. CHAP. CXLII. --An Aczjor the Relief of Paymaster George F. Cutter.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Crcditto be States of America in Congress assembled That the accounting officers of “u°‘Y°‘l}Q*‘?`_“"”‘ the Treasury Department be, and theylare hereby, authorized to cwlit ter (xecrbe I`. , . . . Cutter. George F. Cutter, paymasber 111 Lhe United States navy, wlzh the sum of two hundred and fifny-four dollars m com, now checked agmust Ium on the books of that Department, being the amount stolen from the funds of the United States, on board the ship Piscataqua, in the harbor of Yokahama, Ja an, in Se bember, eighteen hundred and sixt -eight. P P g Y S APPROVED, February 14, 1873. Feb. 14, 1873. CHAP. CXLIII. --An Actjbr che Reliq" g` J. and O. M Dailey. Bo it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the %£;; C‘ M' Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to lllessrg. J. and C. M. Dailey the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars in full for {bod furnished the Sioux Indians in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, upon the application and request of Mahlou Wilkinson, an Indian agent, and that the sum be taken from any money iu the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, February 14, 1873. Feb. 14, 1873. CHAP. CXLIV. -—An Act relating to the Claim zfJo7m B. Chapman. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represemalives of the United

 Claim or John States of ldmerwfca in Congress assembled, That the  c0mmiesi0uel· of

bé Iu<l1un aH`zurs be, and he is hereby, authorized and requnred to investigate Kthe claim of John B. Chapman against the Osage nation of Indians, and report to Congress what, if anything, is justly due·sa.id claimant from the Indians or the government; if anything, how much. APPROVED, February 14, 1873. Feb. 14, 1873. CHAP. CXLV. —-An Actjbr the Relid of S. E. Ward. Be it enacted By the Senate and House of Represcntatives of the United lwment w 3, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- E· Md- ury be authorized, and he is hereby directed, be pay to S. E. Ward the sum of four hundred and forty-five dollars and thirty-five cents, in 11111 of his claim against the United States for supplies furnished Big Ribs and 4 his party, Sioux Indians, in October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, J pursuant to the special order number twenty-two of General Whcat0n, 3 commanding officer of the district of Nebraska. 2 APPROVED, February 14, 1873. 5 Feb. 15, 1873. CHAP. CXLVI. -—An Adfor the Relief xy' Warren and Moore. ’ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasxavggfgd ‘*“d ury is hereby required to pay to Warren and Mopre, of Nashville, Ten- Q uessee, the sum of two hundred and ninetywhree dollars and fifty-eight Q cem:s, in full compensation for fourteen thousand six hundred and seventy- { nine feet of lumber, purchased fiom them by Lieutenant Drake, eleventh 2 Michigan volunteers, acting as—ist,ant quarcermaster of the twenty-ninth gi brigade, army of the Ohio, in the year eighteeu hundred and sixty-two, E for the purpose of constructing defences near- the wall about the old h0s— pital, number ten, Nashville. Approved, February 15, 1873. 2