on board the said steamship, under orders, a sum equal in amount
to his pay and allowance for eight months.

SECTION 2. _And be it further enacted_, That if any such (p. 417)
officer, non-commissioned officer, musician or private, shall have
died before receiving such payment, from any cause consequent upon
said disaster, his widow, if one survive him, and if not, then his
minor children, if any there be, shall be paid a sum equal in
amount to six months' pay, and allowances of the deceased; and
that the widows and minor children of those officers,
non-commissioned officers and privates, who perished by this
disaster, or who died from disease in consequence thereof, shall
be allowed pensions in the same manner in all respects as if the
said officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates had been
killed in battle.

Approved March 27th, 1854.

SECTION 3. _And be it further enacted_,
That the amount which it may be found necessary to pay under the
act of twenty-seventh March, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, to
the widows and orphans of United States troops, who perished by
the recent disaster to the steamship San Francisco, be paid out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved August 5th, 1854.

No. 77. (p. 418)
PLATE LXXVII.

_1866._

Honor and fame are the reward. [Rx]. By resolution of the
Congress of the United States. March 2, 1867. to Cyrus W. Field,
of New York, etc.

CYRUS WEST FIELD.

[_Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable._]

Within a circle formed by a telegraphic cable: HONOR AND FAME ARE THE
REWARD. On clouds in the midst of sunbeams the undraped bust of Cyrus
West Field, facing the left. A hand from above places a crown on his
head; below is the Atlantic Ocean; two ships going in opposite
directions are paying out the cable; to the left, the western
hemisphere, AMERICA; to the right, the eastern hemisphere, EUROPE;
beneath, in a band formed by the Atlantic cable and a chain uniting
the two worlds, INDOMITABLE PERSEVERANCE AND ENDURING FAITH ACHIEVED
THE SUCCESS, J. G. BRUFF D. (_delineavit._) BARBER F. (_fecit_).

Within an endless chain: BY RESOLUTION OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
STATES. MARCH 2, 1867. TO CYRUS W. (_West_) FIELD, OF NEW YORK FOR HIS
FORESIGHT, FAITH, AND PERSISTENCY, IN ESTABL