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FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Buss. II. CHS. 167-170. 1887. 905 no estate whatever, and no widow or child under sixteen years of age: and Whereas Wiuiam J. Owings, of Randolph County, Missouri, a son of said Henry Owings, had the entire care and support of his father, the said Henry Owings, for ten years immediately preceding his death, be being then very old and enfeebled by age having died on the dame aforesaid in his eighty-fourth year: and Whereas under existing laws no money can be drawn on said pensioncertificate except an amount sufficieut to pay the expenses of the last sickness and burial of said deceased pensioner, ss sum wholly inadequate to reimburse said William J. Owings ior his support of the deceased pensioner in his old age: Therefore, Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representation of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Pen- Wm. J. Owings. sions is directed to pay to William J. Owings of Randolph County, P¤y¤¤¤¤'¤ *0, of Missouri, the amount of pensionwhioh had accrued tc Henry Owings, {’f:§;°“ ‘l"° H°“'Y deceased, at the time of his death, December twenty-eighth, eighteen gs' hundred and eighty-one, by virtueof oertiiicato numbered twenty-iivo thousand six hundred and thirty-nine, for original-service pension, dated March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Approved, February 21. 1887. CHAP. 168.-An act for the relief of James M. Hagar. Feb. 21, 1881. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer€cain Oongrm assembled, That the Secretary of the'1'rua.sury J¤•¤¤¤ M· H¤s¤r· be, and hereby is, directed to pay, hom any money in the Treasury not Y“Y”‘°"* *’°· otherwise appropriated, to James M. Hagar, managing ownerof the ship Saint James, of Richmond, Maine, the sum of one thousand one hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-eight cents, that being the amount illegally exaoted from said ship by the United States consul an Bremen haven and covered into the Treasury, which sum said James M. Hagar is entitled to have refunded to him, as appears by statements of the Secretary of State and Fifth Auditor of the Treasury. Approved, February 21, 1887. CHAP. 169.-An act. for the relief of Caroline P. Bolton. Feb. 21, 1887. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqirosentatives of the United States ofAmm·€ca in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inoerior ¤•r¤1i¤• P- B01- be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place ou the pension- "°';;°mkm roll of the United States the name of Caroline P. Bolton, mother ofEd· ’ win W. Bolton, deceased, late n member of Company I, of the Twenty- mst Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, subject to the provisions, limitations, and restrictions of the pension laws. Approved, February 21, 1887. CHAP. 170.-An not for the relief of Mrs. Sophia Sprain, widow, und two minor F¤b· YL W97- children of Louis F. Spmin. ""_1_-— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior S¤1>bj=¤ Spr¤¤¤· d be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the pension-roll, the name of m£:Q';Q3l;;n““ Mrs. Sophia Spmin, widow, and two minor children of Louis F. Sprain, ' late a private in Company D, Fourteenth Wisconsin Volunteers, subject: to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws. Approved, February 21, 1887.