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FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. IL Ch. 260-264. isso. 539 sioned and mustered as nrst lieutenant in the Eighteenth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, to the second day of December, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two, when the said Ruby was commissioned and mustered as an officer in the Thirty-fourth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Approved, June 16, 1880. CHAP. 261.-·An act granting a pension to Belinda Curtis. June 16, 1880. 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- Belinda Curtis, rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension- W1d°""°fM“l·G9”· roll the name of Belinda Curtis, widow of Maior-General Samuel R. S°’f}:;,;i£ CUM Curtis, at the rate of nfty dollars per month. ' Approved, June 16, 1880. CHAP. 262.-An act for the relief of E. K. Snead, deceased, and his sureties, for the June 16, 1880. loss of certain books of special stamps and coupons. —-—-—————-——· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- E. K. Snead, dsury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit upon the °°ZSf’$.t h. official bond of E. K. Snead, deceased, late collector of internal revenue Ogigallbozgéu IS tor the ilrst district of Virginia, and of his sureties therein, so much, not exceeding two thousand and twenty dollars and eighty-three cents, as shall be satisfactorily proven to said Secretary to have been transmitted, in books containing special-tax stamps and coupons, by the deputy of said E. K. Snead, deceased, a certain Patrick II. Slaughter, on or about April twenty-iirst, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, through the mail to said E. K. Snead, and were lost in transitu, and were never received by said Snead, and have never therefore been accounted for by him to the government: Provided, however, That it shall be satis PWM00- factorily shown that the said stamps and coupons were not lost under such circumstances as to have probably devolved a loss upon the government by reason thereof, or were not lost from the fault or negligence of the collector or his deputy, involving in its result a probable loss to the government. Approved, June 16, 1880. CHAP. 263.-An act to place upon the pension-roll the name of Masaeh Finn. June 16, 1880. 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- Masach Finn. Pwrbe, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pension- P<>¤¤¤<>¤- roll the name of Masach Finn, late corporal of Company F Fifty-second Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Infantry Volunteers, on account of §l1S&b1lities equivalent to the total loss of his eye sight,_re0e1ved _WhJle in the service of the government, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws. Approved, June 16, 1880. CHAP. 264.-—An act for the relief of Rachael Martin. June 16, 1880. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the TI“€aS- R¤f¥l¤Pg Mw UW bc, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ered it Rachael Mar· Bbgggdgy UD, postmaster at New Castle, Craig County, Virginia, with the sum of E_ C,md,,y_ thirty-four dollars and twenty-five cents, being the amount forwarded