be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned to indemnify and save harmless the United States from any loss on account of the said stolen bonds.
Approved, April 26, 1904.
April 27, 1904.
[H.R. 2591.]
[Private, No. 1442.]
W. S. Feland.
Payment to.
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 to pay to W. S. Feland, late deputy collector of the second district of Kentucky, the sum of one hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty-six cents out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount due him for excessive expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of his duties during the period from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
Approved, April 27, 1904.
April 27, 1904.
[S. 4651.]
[Private, No. 1443.]
Martin Dowling.
Relief of executors of estate of.
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 abate the inheritance tax assessed against James T. Barry and Richard Cushion, executors of the last will and testament of Martin Dowling, of Rye, New York, as to so much of said estate as shall be established to his satisfaction to have been given to and vested in charitable or other institutions by said James T. Barry and Richard Cushion which under Vol. 30, p. 464.
Vol. 31, p. 946.
Vol. 32, p. 406.the war-revenue Act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as amended by the Acts of March second, nineteen hundred and one, and June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and two, would have been exempt from inheritance tax had the property been bequeathed by Martin Dowling direct to said institutions; and the said Secretary is further authorized to proportionately abate Abatement of inheritance taxany of said assessment from time to time within the period of two years after the passage of this Act, upon satisfactory proof of the further gift by said James T. Barry and Richard Cushion of any portion of said estate to any institution or institutions so exempt from inheritance tax as aforesaid. So far as such tax shall be abated under the provisions of this Act, no inheritance tax shall be collected by reason of the passing of the legal title of said property to the said James T. Barry and Richard Cushion, and the said executors shall be, and are hereby, relieved from the payment of any such tax which may have attached to said property by reason of the said Act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Approved, April 27, 1904.
April 27, 1904.
[H.R. 1851.]
[Private, No. 1444.]
David T. Towles.
Pension increased.
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 on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension
