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RESOLUTIONS.

[No. 4.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims

in the case of Thomas B. King.

Jan. 16, 1863.

Decision against

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Thomas B. King adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Thomas B. confirmed. King be, and the same is hereby, confirmed. Approved January 16, 1863.

[No. 5.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Arthur Edwards and others.

Jan. 16, 1863.

Decision against Arthur

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Arthur confirmed.
Edwards and others be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.
Approved January 16, 1863.

[No. 6.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of George Yates.

Edwards

Jan. 16, 1863.

Decision against

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the George Yates conadverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of the heirs of firmed. George Yates be, and the same is hereby, confirmed. Approved January 16, 1863.

[No. 7.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims
in the case of Joshua Eddy's heirs.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Joshua
Eddy's heirs be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.
Approved January 16, 1863.

Jan. 16, 1863.

Decision against Joshua Eddy's heirs confirmed.

Jan. 16, 1863.

James W. Knaggs confirmed.

[No. 8.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of J. W. Knaggs, administrator of Whitmore Knaggs.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Decision against United States of America in Congress assembled, That the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of James W. Knaggs, administrator of Whitmore Knaggs be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.

Approved January 16, 1863.

[No. 12.]

Feb. 3, 1863.

JOINT RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Moses Yale.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Decision against United States of America in Congress assembled, That the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Moses Yale be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.

Moses Yale confirmed.

Approved February 3, 1863.

Feb. 10, 1863.

No. 14.]

A RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of R. A. Clements, administrator of James N. Mullican.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Decision against United States of America in Congress assembled, That the adverse

R. A. Clements confirmed.

decision of the Court of Claims in the case of R. A. Clements, administrator of James N. Mullican be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.

Approved February 10, 1863.

Feb. 10, 1863.

David D. Mitchell confirmed.

[No. 15.]

A RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of David D. Mitchell.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Decision against United States of America in Congress assembled, That the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of David D. Mitchell be, and the same is hereby, confirmed. Approved February 10, 1863.

[No. 16.]

A RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Thomas Hicks, executor of Isaac Hicks.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Thomas Hicks, ex ecutor of Isaac Hicks, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed. Approved February 10, 1863.

[No. 17.]

A RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Alexander D. Anderson, administrator of John Anderson.

Feb. 10, 1863.

Decision against Thos. Hicks confirmed.

Feb. 10, 1863.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the adverse Decision against decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Alexander D. Ander- Alexander D. Anson, administrator of John Anderson, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.

Approved February 10, 1863.

derson confirmed.

[No. 22.]

A RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Perry E. Brocchus his salary as judge of the supreme court of the United States for the Territory of New Mexico.

Feb. 25, 1863.

Payment to Perry E. Brocchus of

Resolved 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, directed to pay to Perry 664 as salary. E. Brocchus the sum of six hundred and sixty-four dollars, ($664,) the same being for salary due the said Brocchus as United States judge for the Territory of New Mexico from the twenty-fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to the thirty-first day of April of the same year, out of an appropriation already made, in part for that purpose, and still existing, for the payment of judicial salaries for the Territory of New Mexico. Approved February 25, 1863.

[No. 23.]

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Navy Department to allow to Paymaster Gilbert E. Thornton four thousand five hundred dollars, in settlement of his accounts, for money stolen from him without fault or negligence on his part.

Feb. 25, 1863.

Allowance to be

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- made Gilbert E. tary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow to Thornton of $4,500

counts.

in settlement of ac- Paymaster Gilbert E. Thornton, in the settlement of his accounts with said department, the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, that being the amount stolen from the safe of said paymaster, on board the storeship Brandywine, during his absence upon official business, and without his neglect or fault. Approved February 25, 1863.

March 3, 1863.

Preamble. 1862, ch. 54. Ante, p. 376.

Payments

freed slaves to

[No. 39.]

JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of Kate R. Gaither and others. Whereas the commissioners under the act of Congress entitled "An act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia," in a special report to the Secretary of the Treasury, recommended to the equity of Congress certain cases arising under said law in which the claimants could not obtain compensation by reason of the filing of their petitions after the day limited in said act; and whereas said commissioners, considering the equity of said cases, and that the delay in filing said petitions was not voluntary on the part of the claimants, examined into the merits of said claims, and reported the claimants to be otherwise in every respect entitled to the benefits of said act, and in a table marked C, in their report, reported the several amounts to which said claimants would have been entitled, and the appropriation already made for the purpose is amply sufficient to pay said claims: Therefore

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of for the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of the appropriation heretofore made, to the following named persons the sums affixed to their respective names, being the same persons and sums designated in their said report in the said table marked C, viz:

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First. To Kate R. Gaither, the sum of four hundred and thirtyeight dollars.

Second. To John C. Brashears, four hundred and thirty-eight dollars.

Third. To Sarah Webster, three hundred and six dollars and sixty cents.

Fourth. To Hugh McCormick, eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ninety cents.

Fifth. To Lloyd Brooke, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty cents.

Sixth. To Ann H. Cunningham, two hundred and forty dollars and ninety cents.

Seventh. To Teresa Ann Saffell, thirteen hundred and fourteen dollars.

Eighth. To Thomas J. Perry and Mary A., his wife, five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty cents.

Ninth. To John A. Dorsey, eleven hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty cents.

Tenth. To Mary Stevenson, thirteen hundred and fourteen Mary Stevenson. dollars.

Eleventh. To George White, (colored,) six hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty cents.

Twelfth. To Moses Kelly, administrator of W. W. Russell,
United States army, four hundred and fifty-nine dollars.
Making in all the sum of seven thousand two hundred and
twelve dollars and fifty cents.

And that the said several claimants and cases be included, and the said several sums be paid in the same manner as if said cases and awards had been regularly reported by said commissioners. Approved March 3, 1863.

George White.

Moses Kelly.

Mode of pay.

ment.

[No 40.]

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the claim of W. Maxwell Wood.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to allow to Surgeon William Maxwell Wood, the mileage that would be legally due to him on his return from the East Indies under orders given him by Commodore Armstrong, January twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

Approved March 3, 1863.

March 3,1863.

Allowance to W. Maxwell Wood for travel.

[No. 41.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of
Claims in the case of Brigadier General Armstrong.

March 3, 1863.

Decision against Brigadier General firmed.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the ad-
verse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of Brigadier Armstrong
General Armstrong be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.
Approved March 3, 1863.

con

[No. 42.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to confirm the adverse decision of the Court of
Claims in the case of R. R. Ward and others, assignees of Jacob Barker.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the adverse decision of the Court of Claims in the case of R. R. Ward and others, assignees of Jacob Barker, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.

Approved March 3, 1863.

March 3, 1863.

Decision against R. R. Ward and

others confirmed.

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