1868. July 27, 1836, ch. 357, $18. Vol. v. p. 124. Patent of Jonathan S. ed. [No. 86.] A Resolution for the Relief of Jonathan S. Turner. WHEREAS Jonathan S. Turner, of Fair Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, did obtain letters patent of the United States of America, for improvement in alarm clocks, dated July thirteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and whereas the said Jonathan S. Turner did, on or about the twenty-seventh day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, file in the patent office his petition or application for an extension of the term, in accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth section of the patent act, approved July four, eighteen hundred and thir ty-six, and complied with all the requirements of the rules and laws ap plicable thereto, except the inadvertent omission of one revenue stamp of the value of five cents, for which omission only the acting commissioner of patents did, on the twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, refuse to extend the said patent: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of pat Turner extend- ents be, and he is hereby, authorized to extend the term of the said patent to the said Jonathan S. Turner, for the term of seven years from and after the thirteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which said patent, so extended, shall have the same validity, force, and effect, as though the extension had been allowed and certified by the said commissioner of patents, in accordance with the eighteenth section of the patent act, approved July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, before the expiration of the original term named in said patent. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. July 27, 1868. Payment and pension to Martha E. King. [No. 87.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of Martha E. King. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the paymaster-general of the United States army be, and is hereby, directed to pay to Martha E. King, widow of Clinton King, late of the county of Carroll and State of Tennessee, deceased, a sum equal to the pay of a first lieutenant of cavalry from the fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixtythree, to the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; and that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of the said Martha E: King on the pension roll, and she shall be entitled to the pension provided by law for the widow of a first lieutenant of cavalry who died in the military service of the United States of disease contracted while in such service and in the line of duty, since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTIETH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the Third Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December, A. D. 1868, and was adjourned without day on Thursday, the fourth day of March, A. D. 1869. ANDREW JOHNSON, President. BENJAMIN F. WADE, President of the Senate. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives, until the third day of March, A. D. 1869, on which day he resigned, and THEODORE M. POMEROY was elected Speaker, and so acted for the remainder of the session. CHAP. I.-An Act to relieve from Disabilities Franklin J. Moses, a Citizen of South Dec. 11, 1868. Carolina. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each house concurring therein,) That all political disabilities imposed on Franklin J. Moses, a citizen of South Carolina, by reason of the third section of the fourteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, removed. APPROVED, December 11, 1868. Franklin J. Moses relieved of political disabilities. CHAP. III. An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to adjust the Claim of Gustavus Dec. 15, 1868. G. Cushman for Office Rent while Commissioner under the Reciprocity Treaty. Accounts of Gustavus G. Cushman to be Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to reopen and adjust the accounts of Gustavus G. Cushman, late commissioner of fisheries under the late reciprocity treaty adjusted. with Great Britain, so far as relates to a claim for office rent, upon the same basis as allowed to all the successors of said Cushman in said office. p. 10. APPROVED, December 15, 1868. See Vol. xvi. CHAP. V.- An Act to relieve certain Persons of all political Disabilities imposed by the Dec. 22, 1868. Fourteenth Article of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each house con- Removal of curring therein,) That all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth ities from cerpolitical disabil article of the amendments of the Constitution of the United States upon tain persons. the following citizens of South Carolina, viz: Andrew Ramsey, of Edgefield county; W. L. Hewiotz, of Sumter county; William A. McDaniels, James Harrison, and John H. Goodwin, of Greenville county; William J. Mixson, of Barnwell county; Johnson J. Knox, of Sumter county; Jan. 6, 1869. Joseph Moorehead to be admitted into the asylum for the insane in Washington, D. C. Jan. 8, 1869. J. J. Klein, John W. Burbridge, and Charles B. Farmer, of Colleton county; and George Buist, of Charleston county; A. L. McCaslan and William Hill, of Abbeville county; John F. Porteous, of Beaufort county; C. W. McFadden, of Chester county; R. H. Edmunds, of Fairfield county; Alexander McBee, H. M. Smith, and William E. Earle, of Greenville county; W. H. Langston, of Laurens county; John C. Secrest, of Lancaster county; Julius L. Shanklin, of Oconee county; Thompson H. Cooke, George Boliver, and William N. Mount, of Orangeburg county; Spartan D. Goodlett, R. E. Holcombe, John W. Singleton, L. N. Robbins, and James E. Hagood, of Pickens county; John Heart and William H. Tally, of Richland county; P. Quin Camp and A. E. Smith of Spartanburg county; R. L. Heriot, of Sumter county; and Charles W. Geddes, of Charleston county, South Carolina; and Edward Cantwell, of Hanover county; and W. J. Clarke, of Craven county, North Carolina; and DeWitt C. Senter, of Granger county, Tennessee; on account of participation in the recent rebellion, be, and the same hereby are, removed. APPROVED, December 22, 1868. CHAP. VI. - · An Act for the Relief of Joseph Moorehead. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Joseph Moorehead, of Ohio, lately a passed midshipman in the United States navy, now insane, shall be admitted as a patient into the naval and military asylum for the insane, at Washington City, District of Columbia, and remain therein so long as he shall continue insane and his guardian shall so desire. APPROVED, January 6, 1869. CHAP. VIII. An Act to relieve from Disabilities John G. Stokes, a Citizen of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United John G. Stokes States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of each house conrelieved of polit- curring therein,) That all political disabilities imposed on John G. Stokes, a citizen of Alabama, by reason of the fourteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, removed. ical disabilities. Jan. 14, 1869. Payment to Mrs. Emma Wil son. Jan. 18, 1869. Remains of William T. Coggeshall to be removed to the United States. APPROVED, January 8, 1869. CHAP. X.- An Act for the Relief of Mrs. Emma Wilson, of the State of Indiana. 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 authorized to pay to Mrs. Emma Wilson, of Indiana, one quarter's salary of her deceased husband, James Wilson, as minister to Venezuela. APPROVED, January 14, 1869. CHAP. XI. - An Act to provide for the Removal of the Remains of Hon. W. T. Coggeshall, late Minister of the United States at Ecuador, to the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and hereby is, authorized to provide for the removal of the body of Honorable William T. Coggeshall, late minister of the United States at Ecuador, to the United States, and that of his daughter; and that a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of said removal; and that the sum of one thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for the relief of the family of the deceased W. T. Coggeshall. APPROVED, January 18, 1869. - CHAP. XII. An Act to relieve William H. Bagley, of Wake County, North Carolina. Jan. 18, 1869. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of each house concur- William H. ring therein,) That all political disabilities imposed by the third section Bagley relieved from political of the fourteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the disabilities. United States be, and the same are hereby, removed from William H. Bagley, of the county of Wake, in the State of North Carolina. APPROVED, January 18, 1869. CHAP. XIV. — An Act to relieve from Disabilities R. W. Best and Samuel F. Phillips, Jan. 22, 1869. of North Carolina. R. W. Best and Samuel F. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of each house concurring.) That all political disabilities imposed by the United States upon Phillips relieved R. W. Best and Samuel F. Phillips, of North Carolina, in consequence from political of participation in the recent rebellion, be, and the same are hereby, removed. APPROVED, January 22, 1869. disabilities. Payment to Rufus M. Hollister. CHAP. XVII. — An Act for the Relief of Rufus M. Hollister, of Janesville, Wisconsin. Jan. 30, 1869. 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 to Rufus M. Hollister, of Janesville, Wisconsin, the sum of five hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse the said Hollister for that sum, in seven-thirty bonds of the United States, lost and destroyed by fire on the sixteenth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. APPROVED, January 30, 1869. CHAP. XVIII.— An Act confirming Title to "Little Rock Island," in the Mississippi Jan. 30, 1869. River. Whereas, according to the official plat of the survey of the public land returned to the general land office by the surveyor-general, a certain island, in the Mississippi River, known as Little Rock Island, and situate opposite the city of Clinton, in the State of Iowa, was surveyed and platted as being within the district of lands subject to entry and sale at the government land office at Dubuque, in the Territory of Iowa; and whereas said island was entered by Jonathan L. Pearce, junior, at said government land office at Dubuque, as appears by cash certificate num ber three thousand three hundred and twenty-six, and was subsequently granted by the United States to said Jonathan L. Pearce, junior, by letters patent, dated the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-six, and recorded in volume seven, page two hundred and ten, of patents, in which said letters patent said island is described as being Little Rock Island, in the Mississippi River, in township eighty-one north, of range seven east, of the fifth principal meridian, in the district of lands subject to sale at Dubuque, Iowa Territory, containing thirtynine acres and four hundredths of an acre"; and whereas said island is situated east of the main channel of the Mississippi River, in the State of Illinois, in the district of lands subject to sale at Springfield, in said Illinois: Now, therefore, Preamble. Title to "Little Rock Island' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the title to the said island be, and the same is hereby, ratified and confirmed to the said Jonathan L. confirmed to Pearce, junior, and his grantees, fully, in like manner and effect, and in Jonathan L. Pearce, Jr. Proviso. Feb. 2, 1869. Payment to Commander John L. Davis. Feb. 9, 1869. Payment to John H. Osler. Feb. 9, 1869. Title to cer tain lands in New Mexico, confirmed to the Ana. all respects to the same intent and purpose, as if the laws of the United States respecting the survey, entry, and sale of the public land had been fully and in every respect complied with and observed: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to deprive any other person of any right or title to said land acquired from the United States. APPROVED, January 30, 1869. CHAP. XXII. An Act for the Relief of Commander John L. Davis. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officer of the treasury pay to commander John L. Davis two hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-one cents out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, February 2, 1869. CHAP. XXV. - An Act for the Relief of John H. Osler, of Guernsey County, Ohio. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to John H. Osler, late first lieutenant twenty-sixth regiment O. V. I., the pay of a first lieutenant of infantry from the thirty-first of July to the fourth of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. APPROVED, February 9, 1869. CHAP. XXVI. - An Act to confirm the Title to certain Land to the Pueblo of Santa Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lands claimed by and belonging to the pueblo of Santa Ana, in the Territory of New Mexico, lying upon the Jernez or Santa Ana river, and not exceeding four square pueblo of Santa leagues in extent, as reported by the surveyor-general of said Territory in his report to the Secretary of the Interior, of January fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, and the commissioner of the general land office shall issue the necessary instructions for the survey of said claim, and upon the return and filing in his office of such survey and plot, said commissioner shall issue a patent therefor: Provided, however, That the confirmation shall only be construed as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall not affect any adverse valid right, should any such exist. APPROVED, February 9, 1869. Proviso. Feb. 16, 1869. Pension 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 InteJane McMurray rior is hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay to Jane McMurray, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, widow of Ezekiel McMurray, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, in lieu of the sum of four dollars per month now received by her, to commence from the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. APPROVED, February 16, 1869. |