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1072 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 584, 585, 592, 593. 1900. laws, the name of Ada E. Whaley, widow of Edward A. Whaley, late captain Company C, Sixth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month. Approved, May 25, 1900. May 25. 1900-- CHAP. 585.-—An Act Granting an increase of pension to David H. Drake. ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 f Re resentatives of the United l,2gI§;§0§,,£,§§Q;§éd_ States of America in Ocngress assembled, 'I€at the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the _, _ pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension aws, the name of David H. Drake, late of Company H, Sixty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and ay him a pension at the rate of thirty dollars per month in lieu of that he is now receiving. Approved, May 25, 1900. ` May 26, 1900. n StCHAP. 592.-An Act for the relief of Northrup and Chick, and also of Thomas N. IIISOH. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re resentatives of the United mlf,°¥£g‘jI§as&NC§,§ Statescf America in Congress assembled, Tgat the Secretary of the sou, examination. Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to examine and €§‘§;§;.f1°‘mS °f’ w` adjudicate the claims of Northrup and Chick, and also of Thomas N. Stinson, late licensed Indian traders with the Pottawatomie Indians in Kansas, for supplies furnished said Indian band for their subsistence, and to determine whether anything is justly due said Northrup and Chick, and also Thomas N. Stinson, and if so, the amount thereof, and whether there is any fund belonging to said Indians which can be applied to the payment of such claims; and i1 determined, then to report and certify the amount found due to sa' 1 Northrup and Chick, and also to Thomas N. Stinson, without interest, to be paid from the funds of said Indians to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be so aid by him; and the receipt by said Northrup and Chit k, and also by 'Fhomas N. Stinson, or their representatives, of any amount found due them shall operate as a waiver and relinquishment of any claim for interest- Limimf award- It is further provided that the award by the Secretary of the Interior to Northrup and Chick shall not exceed the sum of three thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents, and that to Thomas N. Stinson shall not exceed two thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and six cents. Approved, May 26, 1900. May 26, 1900. CHAP. 593.-—-An Act For the relief of the owner or owners of the schooner Bergen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 0 f the United §§¤§§*:)*;*O*j`?!j€$_;¤&€_ States of America in Ocngress assemble , That the claim of the le al seqga to com of owner or owners of the schooner Bergen, of New York, Benjamin °1“““"· Moss, master, of her car o, freight, tow, and (personal effects, alleged to have been sunk by co§ision with the Unite States Steamship Peri— winkle, at the mouth of the Potomac River, on or about the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be referred to the Court of Claims, to hear and determine the Same to judgment, with ggpirvbf time for the riglht of appeal as in other cases: Provided, That no suit shall be nnngsun. broug t under the provisions of this Act after six months from the date of the passage thereof. Approved, May 26, 1900.