FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 252, 256, 264, 265, 280. 1882. 713 pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Mrs. Jennie S. Mitchell, widow of the late Brigadier- Generul Robert B. Mitchell, and pay her :1. pension of fifty dollars per month from and after the passage of this ucl: Approved, June 27, 1882. CHAP. 256.-An net to aiithorize the Secretary of State to allow for expenditures Jung 30, 1382, within named to J nmes Rea, late consul at Belfast, Ireland —:-————- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, James Rea. and he is hereby, authorized and instructed to allow to James Rea, late Payment toconsul nt Belfast, Ireland, for clerk-hire and other expenses incurred by him as such consul, such sum ns he may find just and equitable, not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars per annum for the period during which he held the office of consul of the United States at Belilist; also the further sum of six hundred dollars expended by said Bea in boarding and defending certain destitute American seamen at Belfast while he was consul. ' Approved, June 30, 1882. CHAP. 264.-—-An act for the relief of.}, H. Merrill. July 1, 188*2. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America •in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the J- H- Merril]- Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, to pay to J. H. P“Y“’°"* *°· Merrill, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty-one dollars and forty-eigl1t cents, the same being an erroneous charge for special improvement against part of lot four, square six hundred and eig hty-four, one half of said sum to be charged to the revenues derived irom taxation of the property of the District of Columbia. _` Approved, July 1, 1882, _ _> CHAP. 265.-An net to authorize the Secretary of Wa.: to loan tents to the N¤rth· July 1, 1882. western Missouri and Southwestern Iowa Veteran Soldier! Association. ———-··--7- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, Miswv ri Mui and he hereby is, authorized to loan to the officers of the Northwestern $$3::, v,°"°“!‘;uS::‘ ‘ Missouri and the Southwestern Iowa Veteran Soldiers' Association such Lon 0,- ,0,,,,,; a number of wall tents, poles, and nine as may be necessary for the m. — accommodation of said association at IES annual encumpment in eighteen hundred and eightytwo at Council Bluffs, Iowa: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall, before delivering said property, take from said officers 2. good and sniiieient bond conditioned for the safe return of nid property in good order and the whole without expense to the United States. Approved, July 1, 1882. CHAP. 280.-An act to reissue a Treasury draft originally issued to Geoife G. Cobb, Jn1y 7, 1882, an assistant assessor in Alabama, deceased, to J. . Cobb, custodian 0 the minor —————-———- children of said decedent. · ‘ Whereas, on the eighteenth of May, eighteen hundred and seventy- Preamble. one, United States Treasury draft numbemed fifty-four hundred and sixtyeigbt, cn the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York,
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