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7 28 FORTY-SEVEN TH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 402-406. 1882, . deficiency, and to refund the same, or such parts thereof as fall within the principles of the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Stoll versus Pepper, and in accordance with the provisions of section six of an act entitled "An act to amend the laws relating to internal revenue ”, approved March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine: Provided, That the aggregate amount allowed and paid under the provisions of this act shall not exceed Nine thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and eight cents. Approved, August 5, 1882. August 5, 1882, CHAP. 403.—A11 act for the relief of James Burke. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United James Burke. States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one hundred R°h°f °£ and eighty dollars and forty cents be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of War to reimburse to James Burke, superintendent of the national cemetery at Salisbury, North Carolina, the amount of a judgment, costs, and disbursements, which judgment was obtained against said Burke in the circuit court of Pulaski County, Kentucky, at a suit of William H. Logan, for an alleged trespass by said Burke, committed while in discharge of his duty as said superintendent, which said Burke defended, but was by said court condemned in damages and costs for the aforesaid sum of one hundred and eighty doHars and forty cents. Approved, August 5, 1882. ` August 5, 1882. CHAP. 404.-An act granting a pension to Erastus Crippen Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United E¤¤§¤¤0ri1>p•>¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P°“"°"· Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension—roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Erastus Crippen, late fourth sergeant of Company G., One hundred and forty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; said pension to commence from the date his name was dropped from the ’ pension-roll. Approved, August 5, 1882. . Aggugt 5, Iggg CHAP. 405.-An act for the relief of the-widow of George W. Flood. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United pt. J. Flood, States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed and paid, $$1 ¤fdG¤<gz¤ out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to M. J. mimi °° · °' Flood, widow of George W. Flood, for his services as a clerk in the p,,,,,,,,,; ¤,_ Bureau of Topographical Engineers irom the first day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty four, to the sixteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty six, at the rate of the compensation or salary. of a clerk of the first class, after deductinog the amount received by him for services in said officc during the peri aforesaid, to wit, the sum of five hundred and seventy five dollars and fifty cents. Approved, August 5, 1882. . Angust 5, lm CHAP. 406.--An act for the relief of Josh Spencer and James. R. Mead. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o Representatives o the United jx; gfx;"' States of America in Congress assembled, "That the Secretary of the Inhyment to. terior be, and he is hereby authorized and required to P8?, Or cause to