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596 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. Ill. Ch. 63, 64, 66, G7. 1879. Feb. 7, 1879. CHAP. G3.-An act granting a. pension to Il. Louise Gates. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United H- L<>¤iS<> GMCS- States of America in Congress assembled, Tl1at the Secretary of the Inte- .I"""“”° °f P°“' rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pensionm°"' roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension-laws, the name of H. Louise Gates, and pay her a pension at the rate of fifty dollars per month, instead of the pension now paid her. Approved, February 7, 1879. Feb. 7, 1879. CHAP. 64.——An act granting a. pension to Belinda Macdonald. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Belinda Mae- States of America i n Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior acnnld, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension- P°““"’“· roll, suhiect to the provisions and limitations of the pension-laws, the name of Belinda Macdonald, widow of Christopher R. Macdonald, late colonel Forty-seventh Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry. Approved, February 7, 1879. FB], 13, 1g7g_ CHAP. 66.-An act for the relief of Burr S. Craft Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United B. S. Craft. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Dglpliwtc gold ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Burr S. Craft °°““‘°“*°· the sum of five thousand dollars in gold coin of the United States, in lieu of certilicate of deposit numbered twenty-tive thousand three hundred and seventyeiglit, issued under act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, on the fourteenth day of November eighteen hundred and sixty-six, lor the sum of five thousand dollars, pay- able in the gold coin of the United States, to the order of E. H. Birdsall, and by the said E. H. Birdsall indorsed, payable to the order of B1u·r S. Craft, which said certilieate, it is claimed, was lost or stolen on or about the eighteenth day of December, eighteen llllll(l1'0(1 and seventy- Boud of ;,,dc,,,_ three: Provided, That before the payment- hcrcinhet'ore authorized the nity. said Burr S. Craft shall tirst lilo in the Treasury a bond in a penal sum double the amount of the said missing certilicate, with sufficient sureties, with condition to indemnify and save harmless the United States trom any claim because of the said lost or missing certificate; which bond shall be executed in the same manner and lorm as required under section thirty seven hundred and live of the Revised Statutes for the issue of duplicate registered interest bearing bonds of the United States. Approved, February 13, 1879. Feb. 13, 1879. CHAP. 6'I.—An act for the relief of June Clark, Margaret. A. J ack, J ust ina. Peterson, -—-—-——— and Mary Johanson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 1fepresentatires of the United JaneC1nrk. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Conunissioner of the J“1;i];¤3¤·*°* A- General Land Office be and is hereby authorized and directed to restore _,ué,,m,P6,m0u_ the entry of Jane Clark of lots three and tour in section two township iam. Johanson_ eighty-eight north range thirty-two west, and the entry of Margaret A. Jack of the west half of the northeast quarter of section twenty, town- Restoration of ship eighty-nine north range thirty-one west and the entry of Justina. land c,,m,,,_ Peterson in her maiden name Justina Anderson of the east ha1l‘ol' the southeast quarter of section l`ourteen township eighty-nine north range thirty-two west and the entry of Mary Johanson of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the southwest