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812 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 34-37. 1893. pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of John M. Roberts, and pay him a pension of forty dollars per month, in lieu of the pension he is now receiving. Approved, January 12, 1893. J“““'Y 12*18% CHAP. 35.--An act granting an increase of pension to William C. Tarkington. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United mzvmim C-T“’“”¥‘ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Pension increased. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to theprovisionsandlimitations of the pension laws, the name of William C. Tarkington, of Indianapolis, Indiana, late captain and quartermaster in the volunteer service of the United States during the war of the rebellion, and to pay him a pension of thirty dollars per month, in lieu of the pension he is now receiving. Approved, January 12, 1893. •T*”““'Y 12·18”· CHAP. 36.-An act for the relief of George W. McKinney. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United emge w. uexm- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, “°§;,m,,, ,,,,0,,; W, and hereby is, authorized and directed to revoke and set aside the MM- general order of Major-General D. S. Stanley, dated Headquarters First Division, Fourth Army Corps, March twenty-iirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and numbered twenty-two, approving the iinding and sentence of the general court-martial in the case of George W. McKinney, private Company E, Thirty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, finding him “ not guilty of desertion, but guilty of absence without leave,” and sentencing him “to forfeit all pay and allowance due him from the United States from the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, until the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three" and correct his record so as to show him absent on leave duly granted, from May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty two, to August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty two, and absent. disabled from sickness and disease, rendering him unfit for any military duty, up to September twenty- tburth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, when he rejoined his company. Approved, January 12, 1893. January 12, 1893. CHAP. 37.-—An act for the relief of E. Darwin Gage, late lieutenant-colonel of

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United gigarwin Gag?-M States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, ,mQ,f"" '°°°and he is hereby, authorized and directed to recognize E. Darwin Gage as lieutenant-colonel of the One hundred and forty-eighth Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry, and to amend the records of said regiment so as to show said Gage to have been lieutenant colonel thereof from October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the date from which he was commissioned to take rank, to October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the date on which he was killed in action at Fair Oaks, Virginia, said Gage having actually discharged the duties of lieutenant-colonel of said regiment for the period above specified. Approved, January 12, 1893.