]3 1Q FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 429-432. 1889. the same to the said firms or parties, or their legal representatives, out of any Cuiioney in the iTreasury of the United fates not otherwise appropriat . Approved, March 2, 1889. March 2, 1889. CHAP. 430.-An act for the relief of the estate of J. J. Pulliam, deceased. ggeegblew Whereas under the provisions of the act of June sixteenth, eighteen ` ’°‘hundred and sixty-four, certain claims were allowed and reported to Congress by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department, in eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for payment, including the claim of J. J. Pulliam’s estate, for wood supp ied to the Quartermaster’s Department of the United States Army; and ’ Whereas there was a mistake in the amount that should have been reported in favor of said Pulliam’s estate, as appears by the report of the committee to whom said bill was referred, made before the _ passage thereof : Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House { Representatives of the J.J.Pu1Ilam. United States of America in Oonygess assem led, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury epartment be, and they are hereby, Claim of estate ef. authorized and directed to re-examine and settle the claim of the t°°°'°'°”m°'°d‘ estate of J. J. Pulliam, deceased, late of Fayette County, State of Tennessee, for wood taken by the United States forces uring the late war, -from one hundred and twenty-five acres of land located near the village of La Grange, in said State; and the Secretary of the Payment. Treasnug is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the reasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum that may be RWM- found due said estate, nrst deducting any sum heretofore paid: Pro- Limit- vided, That the amount shall not exceed four thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars. Approved, March 2, 1889. Mami 2,1sea CHAP. 431.-—An act for the relief of Mary A. Howse, and Lula H. Howse, Be it enacted by the Senate and House 7,% Representatives of the {gan 0- ylgwrgirs at United States of America in Congress asse Zed, That the Secretary aw 3'Pim of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of ` any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to ay to Mary Alice Howse, and Lula H. Howse, he1rs at law of Jogm C. Howse, deceased, late of Rutherford County, Tennessee, ten thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars, being the amount allowed by ihegluagtemnter-General for quartermaster’s stores taken and used _ y e rm . '*'°"°*”‘““· Sec. 2. Tllat the said ment of ten thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars shalllabe a full and complete settlement of all claims against the United States, of every kind andcharacter, arising out of the aplpropriation and use by the Army of supplies or stores from said c aimants. ‘ Approved, March 2, 1889. · _ M?¤’¤h2·¥B9°· 0HAP.432.—An act for the relief of the heirs of John H. Newman, deceased. Preamble- Whereas, it appears of record that at its December term, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the Court of Claims in the case og John H. Newman versus the United States, numbered thirty-one hundred and sixty-two, rendered a 'udgment in favor of the said Newman i · for the proceeds of fifty bales of cotton, valued at one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-five cents per bale, when under the
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