[PUBLIC RESOLUTION—No. 21.]

JOINT RESOLUTION donating condemned cannon and muskets for the McPherson monu

ment.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to furnish to the McPherson Monument Association, of Clyde, Ohio, four pieces of condemned iron cannon, four pieces of condemned brass cannon, twenty-five cannon balls, and one thousand condemned muskets, with bayonets, to be placed about the monument.

Approved, March 3, 1869.

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 22.]

A RESOLUTION extending the time for the completion of the first twenty miles of the Cairo and Fulton railroad.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in case the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company shall complete the first section of twenty miles of said road by the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the Secretary of the Interior shall be satisfied of such completion, then the said company shall be entitled to its lands in all respects and to the same extent as it would have been had said twenty miles been completed by the twenty-eighth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as provided by law relating to said railroad company approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Approved, March 3, 1869.

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 23.]

A RESOLUTION reappointing Louis Agassiz a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Louis Agassiz, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, reappointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of his present term.

Approved, March 3, 1869.

PRIVATE ACTS.

[PRIVATE-No. 1.]

AN ACT to relieve from disabilities Franklin J. Moses, a citizen of South 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.

[PRIVATE-No. 2.]

AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of State to adjust the claim of Gustavus G. Cushman for office rent while commissioner under the reciprocity treaty.

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 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. Approved, December 15, 1868.

[PRIVATE-NO. 3.]

AN ACT to relieve certain persons of all political disabilities imposed by the 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 concurring therein, That all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of the amendments of the Constitution of the United States upon 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; 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. Rob

bins, and James E. Hagood, of Pickens county; John Heart and William H. Talley, 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.

[PRIVATE-NO. 4.]

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.

[PRIVATE-No. 5.]

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 States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each house concurring 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.

Approved, January 8, 1869.

[PRIVATE-No. 6.]

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.

[PRIVATE-NO. 7.]

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.

[PRIVATE-No. 8.]

AN ACT to relieve William H. Bagley, of Wake county, North 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 by the third section of the fourteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the 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.

[PRIVATE-No. 9.]

AN ACT to relieve from disabilities R. W. Best and Samuel F. Phillips, of North 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,) That all political disabilities imposed by the United States upon R. W. Best and Samuel F. Phillips, of North Carolina, in consequence of participation in the recent rebellion, be, and the same are hereby, removed.

Approved, January 22, 1869.

[PRIVATE-No. 10.]

AN ACT for the relief of Rufus M. Hollister, of Janesville, Wisconsin.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas ury 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.

[PRIVATE-NO. 11.]

AN ACT confirming title to "Little Rock island," in the Mississippi 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