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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 461-463. 1910. 1867 CHAP. 461.-An Act For the relief of \Villiam J. Allen. .G1In§2?5é?}1;. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United [Private, No. 150.] States0fAmerica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- fQ;§1°§,{,,;“*°¤· ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to William J. ` Allen, sergeant-major Thirteenth Regiment United States Cavalry, the sum of eighty dollars and fourteen cents, and said sum of eighty dollars and iourteen cents is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropmated, the value of rsonal property belonging to said William J. Allen and destroyed)6 by tire in an armEy tent on September sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, at ort Wingate, New Mexico, while the said William J. Allen was using the said property in the course of his duty as a soldier in the Army of the United States. Approved, June 25, 1910. CHAP. 462.-An Act For the relief of the estate of John V. Schermer. iiérig Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representati22es of the United [Private. No- 151.] States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the §’e‘g;,},'i,§,Fj,*;,°‘[,’;‘§f,;,, Treasury be. and he hereby is, directed to redeem the United States bondswesms of- _ coupon bonds numbered one hundred and ninety-three thousand four hundred and ninety-seven and eighty-five thousand two hundred and one, each for the principal sum ogone thousand dollars, together with the unpaid coupons thereon for the interest on the first-mentioned bond from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to F ebruary sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for the interest on the last-mentioned bond from Januar first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to November third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, said bonds having been issued under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixt -five, and belonging to the loan known as consols of eighteen hundredl and sixty-tive, in favor of the duly appointed and ualified executor or executor de bonis non of the estate of John V. Schermer, deceased, the former owner thereof, upon the said executor I“"°“‘““" "°°d· or executor de bonis non furnishing to the Treasury Department a bond of indemnity in such amount and with such security as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, to secure the United States against loss or damage in consequence of the redemption of said bonds and coupons. Approved, June 25, 1910. CHAP. 4 .-A horlz° nts to insu to the uitabl mmm June 26, mc. et certain a¤°Zi. e.J3eiii°3€.Zlittd.m“ "“°° b° °d °" ° ° °” r¤-¤· 17664-1 Private, No. 152. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofltqresentateives of the United [ 1 States of America in Congress assembled, That the equitable claimants §l,,°,;·§§,§“§,*},$,‘;“g’,; of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirteen, mm-may umm ty. the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-four, all in township thirty north, of range thirteen west, fourth principal meridian, Dunn County, Wisconsin, under the erroneous location of military bounty land warrant numbered eighty-eight thousand and eighty-nine, for one hundred and twenty acres, Act of March third, e` teen hundred and fiftydive, by Eleanor Buchanan, be, and they herlgi are, authorized to purchase the said tracts or either of the said legal subdivisions upon payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and the ramen:. Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to issue a patent or patents to such eguitable claimants upon payment of said purchase price: Provided, hut said equitable claimants shall tirst meme nquma.