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CHAP. 201.-AN ACT for the relief of Benjamin Adams and Company, and others.

Certain duties paid by them to

[SEC. 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 Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the be refunded. treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Benjamin Adams and Company, George Howe and Company, Thomas P. Cushing, Dexter and Almy, Gill Wheelock, and Carter, and Coolidge, the additional duties paid by them, severally, over and above five per cent. ad valorem imposed by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, on certain milled and fulled cloths, known by the name of "plains, kerseys, and Kendal cottons," which were imported by them, respectively, under the act of the fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and placed in the public stores, according to the terms of said act, prior to the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three: Provided, That satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury that said goods were in the actual custody of the public officers on the third day of March aforesaid, and that said duties have not been returned in debentures on the exportation of said merchandise: And provided, also, That the whole amount to be thus refunded, as having been overpaid, shall not exceed two thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars. Approved August 14, 1848.

Proviso.

The

whole

amount to be thus refunded not to

exceed $2,776.

CHAP. 202.-AN ACT for the relief of Purser Benjamin J. Cahoone.

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[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and are hereby, authorized to allow to Benjamin J. Cahoone, in the settlement of his accounts as purser, the sum of two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents, for the services of Mr. Fleming, late captain's clerk on board the United States frigate Congress, who performed the additional duties of purser's clerk during a part of the late cruise of said frigate.

Approved August 14, 1848.

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CHAP. 203.-AN ACT granting a pension to Abigail Garland, widow of
Jacob Garland, deceased.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sates of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to place the name of Abigail Garland, of Potten, in the prov- Paher.

A pension of $5 per month allow

ince of Canada east, widow of Jacob Garland, on the revolutionary pension roll; and that she be paid at the rate of five dollars per month during her life, to commence on the twentyeighth of April, eighteen hundred and forty-three.

Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 204.-AN ACT for the relief of Anna J. Hassler.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA pension of sembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, the term of five authorized and required to place on the navy pension list, allowed under the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty.

$25 per month for

years her.

four, the name of Anna J. Hassler, widow of Charles A. Hassler, deceased, late a surgeon in the United States navy, and that there be paid to her, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five dollars per month for the term of five years; pension to commence on the twenty-seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, on which day her said husband was drowned, while on board the steamer Atlantic. Approved August 14, 1848.

$10 per month al lowed him.

CHAP. 205.-AN ACT for the relief of Welcome Parmeter.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA fpension of Sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of Welcome Parmeter on the pension roll, and to allow and pay him a pension at the rate of ten dollars per month during his natural life, to commence on the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six. Approved August 14, 1848.

$4 per month alJowed him.

CHAP. 206-AN ACT for the relief of David Currier.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

A pension of sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, required to place the name of David Currier, of Andover, in the State of Massachusetts, upon the invalid pension roll, at the rate of four dollars per month, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 207.—AN ACT for the relief of Elizabeth, Pistole, widow of Charles
Pistole, deceased.

placed

upon

[SEC. 1,] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, Her name to be authorized and directed to place the name of Elizabeth Pis- the revolutionary tole, widow of Charles Pistole, who was a private soldier in peasion roll. the revolutionary army, on the revolutionary pension roll, and allow her the same rate of pension as is allowed to the widows of revolutionary soldiers under the act of June seventeen, eighteen hundred and forty-four.

Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 208.-AN ACT for the relief of David A. Watterston.

Το be paid $87 85,the amount

year 1844 and 1st

[SEC. 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 Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid to D. A. of his salary for Watterston the sum of eighty-seven dollars and eighty-five 4th quarter of the cents, the same being the amount of his salary for the fourth quarter of the quarter of the year eighteen hundred and forty-four; and the year 1945. first quarter of the year eighteen hundred and forty-five, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 209.-AN ACT for the relief of David Wilkinson.

To be paid $10,000 for the

use of the principle of the gauge invented by him

and sliding lathe

[SEC. 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 Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid to David Wilkinson the sum of ten thousand dollars as a remuneration to him for the benefits accruing to the public service from the use of the principle of the gauge and sliding lathe, of which of the govern he was the inventor, now in use in the workshops of the ment. government at the different national arsenals and armories; the same to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved August 14, 1848.

CHAP. 210.-AN ACT for the relief of John Lorimer Graham, late postmaster in the city of New York.

at the workshops

To be credited an amount equal

his disbursements

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as to the debit for sembled, That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post from the Post Of Office Department credit the account of John Lorimer Gra- fice fund in leas ham, late postmaster in the city of New York, with a sum buildings, &c., for equal to the debit, for his disbursements from the post office New York

ing ground and

the post office at

$2,704 31 to be

the Post Office

fund, in leasing ground and buildings, and fitting the same for the principal branch post office in that city, under the direction of Charles A. Wickliffe, late Postmaster General.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster paid him out of General pay to the said John Lorimer Graham the sum of two thousand seven hundred and four dollars and thirty-one cents, the said Graham having overpaid that amount at said date.

fund for that sum

overpaid by him.

Approved August 14, 1848.

RESOLUTIONS.

[No. 1.] A RESOLUTION authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the city of Washington of a monument to George Washington.

Washington National Monu

a monument to

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Washington National Monument Society be, and it is hereby, authorized to erect the proposed monument to the ment Society aumemory of George Washington upon such portion of the thorized to erect public grounds or reservations within the city of Washington, the memory, of not otherwise occupied, as shall be selected by the President ton on the public of the United States and the board of managers of said so- city of Washingciety, as a suitable site on which to erect the said monument, and for the necessary protection thereof. Approved January 31, 1848.

grounds in

ton.

the

[No. 2.1 JOINT RESOLUTION expressive of the thanks of Congress to Major General Winfield Scott, and the troops under his command, for their distinguished gallantry and good conduct in the campaign of eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

Thanks of Con

General

Major
gress presented to
Scott and to the

officers and men
com-

mand for their

certain battles in

Resolved unanimously by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress be, and they are hereby, presented to Winfield Scott, major general commanding in chief the army in Mexico, and through him to the officers and men of the regular and volunteer corps under him, for their uniform gal- under his lantry and good conduct conspicuously displayed at the siege gallantry, good and capture of the city of Vera Cruz and castle of San Juan conduet, &c., in de Ulloa, March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty- Mexico. seven; and in the successive battles of Cerro Gordo, April eighteenth; Contreras, San Antonio, and Churubusco, August nineteenth and twentieth ; and for the victories achieved in front of the city of Mexico, September eighth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth, and the capture of the metropolis, September fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, in which the Mexican troops, greatly superior in numbers, aud with every advantage of position, were in every conflict signally defeated by the American arms.

SEC. 2. Resolved, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, requested to cause to be struck a gold medal, with devices emblematical of the series of brilliant victories achieved by the army, and presented to Major General Winfield Scott as a testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of his valor, skill, and judicious conduct

A gold medal to be struck and

presented to General stott.

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