AN ACT for the relief of Solomon Wadsworth.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That an act entitled "An act for the relief of Solomon Wadsworth," approved the sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, be, and is hereby, amended by striking out the word "ninety-four" and inserting in lieu thereof the word ninety-five. Approved February 13, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of Alexander J. Atocha.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the court of claims be, and the said court is hereby, directed to examine into the claims of Alexander J. Atocha against the government of Mexico for losses sustained by him by reason of his expulsion from that republic in eighteen hundred and forty-five; and if they shall be of opinion that the said claim was a just one against Mexico, when the treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-eight was ratified, and was embraced by said treaty, they shall then fix and determine the amount of the same; and that the loss or damage so sustained being adjudicated and determined by said court, the same shall be paid to the said Alexander J. Atocha, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That the amount so to be paid shall in no event exceed the balance of the three and a quarter millions of dollars provided by the fifteenth article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo for the payment of claims of citizens of the United States against the government of Mexico, which still remains unapplied to that object. Approved February 14, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of Almond D. Fisk, deceased.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Phebe Ann Fisk, as executrix of Almond D. Fisk, deceased, who obtained a patent for "a new and useful improvement in coffins," dated the fourteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for fourteen years, which has now expired, be authorized to apply to the Commissioner of Patents for an extension of said patent for seven years, under the rules and regulations now in force for the extension of patents, as if she had made application previous to its expiration, as required by law; and the Commissioner is directed to investigate and decide the appli cation for extension on the same evidence, and in the same manner, as other applications for extensions are decided, notwithstanding the surrender and reissue of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty; Provided, That the application for extension be made within thirty days from the approval of this act, and the decision of the Commissioner be rendered within ninety days from the filing of said application in the Patent Office: And provided also, That nothing. herein shall be so construed as to hold responsible in damages any persons who may have manufactured coffins containing the aforesaid improvements, between the expiration of the patent and the approval of this act.

Approved February 17, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of Henry A. Brigham.

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, directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Henry A. Brigham the sum of two thousand dollars, being the amount of his check drawn in favor of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, on the seventh of November, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

Approved February 20, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of George A. Schreiner.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of George A. Shreiner, of the county of Wyandott, State of Kansas, upon the list of pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and to continue during his natural life.

Approved February 23, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of Harriet and Emily W. Morris, unmarried sisters of the late Commodore Henry W. Morris.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Harriet and Emily W. Morris, the unmarried sisters of the late Commodore Henry W. Morris, be entitled to and receive the same pension as the brother would have been entitled to had he been totally disabled, to commence from the death of the brother; and the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the names of the said Harriet and Emily W. Morris upon the pension roll of navy pensions: Provided, That in case of the death or marriage of either of the said sisters her pension shall cease.

Approved February 25, 1865.

AN ACT to change the name of Dorsey Edwin William Towson, of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, to that of Dorsey Edwin William Carter.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Dorsey Edwin William Towson, of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, be, and he is hereby, authorized, from and after the passage of this act, to take and use the surname of Carter, and that his name hereafter be Dorsey Edwin William Carter; and all acts done and entered into by that name shall have the same effect and operation in law as if his name had originally been Dorsey Edwin William Carter, of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.

Approved February 25, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of Mary Shircliff.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Mary Shircliff, widow of John Shircliff, on the pension roll, and pay her a pension, at the rate of eight dollars per month, during her widowhood, from the passage of this act. Approved February 25, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of Rebecca S. Harrison.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the naval pension roll the name of Rebecca S. Harrison, widow of the late Lieutenant Horace N. Harrison, at the rate of seventeen dollars per month, to commence from the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and to continue during her widowhood; and in case of her death or marriage, the same to be continued to her children, until the youngest shall have reached the age of sixteen years. Approved February 25, 1865.

AN ACT to pay to each of the surviving soldiers of the Revolution, five in number, whose names are on the pension rolls, three hundred dollars annually, as a gratuity, in addition to the pension now paid them.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, there shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars, to be paid annually, to each of the persons hereinafter named, five in number, during their natural lives, as a gratuity on the part of the government-the five persons hereinafter named being the sole survivors of the army of the Revolution whose names are enrolled on the books of the Pension Office-said gratuity to be paid to them by the Commissioner of Pensions, in addition to the pensions now paid them under former acts of Congress; said payment to each of the persons hereinafter named to cease on the death of such person:

To Lemuel Cook, enlisted at Hatfield, Massachusetts, is now about ninetyeight years of age, and resides in Clarendon, Orleans county, New York, three hundred dollars.

To Samuel Downing, enlisted in Carroll county, New Hampshire, is now about ninety-eight years of age, and lives in Edinburg, Saratoga county, New York, three hundred dollars.

To William Hutchings, enlisted at New Castle, Maine, (then Massachusetts,) is now one hundred years old, and resides in Penobscot, Hancock county, Maine, three hundred dollars.

To Alexander Maroney, enlisted at Lake George, New York, as a drummer boy, is now about ninety-four years old, his residence is Yates, Orleans county, New York, three hundred dollars.

To James Barham, substitute for a drafted man in South Hampton county, Virginia, lives in the State of Missouri, and is in his one hundred and first year, three hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Pensions, as soon as this act has been passed by both houses of Congress, and approved of by the President, to have made out five copies of the same, each signed by the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, and the President of the United States, and to send a copy of the same to each of the revolutionary soldiers in this act above mentioned.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 27, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of Chapin Hall.

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 pay Chapin Hall, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, in full for damages sustained by him in consequence of the taking and using his lumber, at Louisville, Kentucky, by General McCook's division of the United States army, in the month of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Approved February 27, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of Charles A. Pitcher.

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 pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Charles A. Pitcher the sum of five thousand dollars, for damages sustained by reason of the infringement of a patent on a machine for making brooms, and the use of the same in the penitentiary of the United States, from November first, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, to the twentieth of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

Approved March 3, 1865.

AN ACT granting a pension to Sophia Brooke Taylor, widow of the late Major Francis

Taylor.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Sophia Brooke Taylor, widow of the late Francis Taylor, major of the first regular United States artillery, who died of yellow fever while in command of the post at Fort Brown, Texas, on the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, upon the pension roll, at the same rate of pay which he would have been entitled to if he had been totally disabled at the time of his death, for and during the period of her natural life or, widowhood.

Approved March 3, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of W. H. and C. S. Duncan.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two hundred dollars and eighty cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to W. H. and C. S. Duncan, of the city of Lawrence, Kansas, for compensation in full for goods and provisions furnished Captain Walker's company, Kansas militia, by order of Governor Geary, in eighteen hundred and fifty-six.

Approved March 3, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of Samuel L. Gerould.

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 directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Samuel L. Gerould, late sergeant company G, fourteenth New Hampshire volunteers, the sum of one hundred and seventynine dollars and twenty cents, for his services as clerk to a general court-martial, from September twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to December twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

Approved March 3, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of John Hastings, collector of the port of Pittsburg.

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 directed, in adjusting the accounts of John Hastings, as collector of the customs at the port of Pittsburg, to give him credit for the sum of nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and sixty-two cents, the amount of the public money of which he was robbed on the tenth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-four, while acting in the aforesaid capacity.

Approved March 3, 1865.

AN ACT for the relief of Mary A. Baker, widow of Brigadier General Edward D. Baker.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Mary A. Baker, widow of Brigadier General Edward D. Baker, on the pension roll, at the rate of fifty dollars a month, from the twenty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to continue during her widowhood.

Approved March 3, 1865.

AN ACT granting a pension to Ellen M. Whipple, widow of the late Major General Amiel W. Whipple, of the United States army.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be di