PRIVATE ACTS. [PRIVATE-NO. 1.] AN ACT to remove the charge of desertion from certain soldiers of the second North Carolina mounted infantry. Whereas it appears from the evidence of certain officers of the second North Carolina mounted infantry, the records of the War Department, and the official orders of Major General Schofield, that certain scldiers were detached from the second North Carolina mounted infantry to join the third North Carolina mounted infantry to make a raid into the enemy's lines in June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the purpose of destroying railroad bridges and harassing the enemy, and while absent from their regiments upon such duty they were borne upon the rolls of the second North Carolina mounted infantry as deserters: Therefore, Be it enacted 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 and directed to remove the charge of desertion or absence without leave from the following-named soldiers of the second North Carolina mounted infantry: Company A: Joseph Thompson, Job Rice, A. J. Massey, John W. Bullman, James Arrowood, Kinsey Kensley, George West, William Hunter, Alfred Fox, Allen Fox. Company B: Henry M. Revis, George M. Roberts, Jacob M. Revis, Adam F. Eller, Pinkney Fox, Robert L. Fox, Spencer Rice, Patterson Reece, Robert H. Pickens, Calvin Maney, Sheperd Deaver, Robert Sams, J. B. Gosnel, Peter M. Hughy, Alexander Beachboard, John S. West, Edward Sams, Jeremiah Buckner, Thomas D. Cole, James P. Arrowood, John B. Sage, James M. Cole, John H. Payne. Company C: Lewis W. Ramsey, Samuel Rector, Manley Ball, Hiram Rice, John H. Wild, John Ramsey, George W. Freeman, Andrew J. Freeman, Robert Anderson, David Lunsford, Jacob H. Wild, John M. Wild, Jackson Paris, William D. Perry, George N. Stines, Job Ramsey Jackson Ramsey, Abner Brooks, Lewis Paris, Benjamin F. Freeman, Seth Freeman, Jasper Brown, James Pain. Company D: Leander Wright. Company E: John Stanton, Hackley Norton, Eliphas Shelton, Ezekiel Sams, James Norton, Samuel Gosnel, William Hensley, Peter McCoy, Simon P. Presnel, William Gentry, William Norton, Tilman Landers, William Shelton, Balis Norton, David Norton, Francis M. Franklin, George M. Gentry, James Gosnel, William J. McCoy, William Norton, junior, Jesse Norton, John E. Griffin, Andrew J. Banks, John H. Cook, William Shelton, junior, Thomas J. Candler, David Shelton, Robert H. Hare, Larkin Stanton, James Norton, junior, George W. Gentry. Company F: James M. Case, John H. Drake, Joshua F. Case, William C. Lanning, Levi Cantrell, E. F. Case, William F. Case, John Cantrell, Wilie Gosnel, William H. Walker, Richard T. Drake, James J. Camp, Voltair V. C. Cantrell. Company H: Ezekiel Kuykendoll, Daniel Gilbert. [PRIVATE-No. 2.] AN ACT in addition to an act entitled "An act to relieve from legal and political disabilities certain persons engaged in the late rebellion," approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. 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 legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States by reason of participation in the late rebellion be, and they hereby are, removed from the persons named in an act approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act to relieve from legal and political disabilities certain persons engaged in the late rebellion." Approved, April 1, 1869. [PRIVATE-No. 3.] AN ACT for the relief of Orlando Brown. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, in the examination and settlement of the property and money accounts of Orlando Brown, late captain and assistant quartermaster United States army, to credit and allow him all expenditures of money and property made by him in good faith under the orders, or in conformity with orders, of his superior officers; and especially all expenditures of quartermasters' property made by him for the benefit of freedmen, under the orders of Major General Benjamin F. Butler, in like manner as if the same had been regularly expended in the quartermasters' department. Approved, April 1, 1869. [PRIVATE-No. 4.J AN ACT for the relief of Isabella C. Youngs, wife of Theophilus Youngs. Whereas letters patent were on the twentieth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-six, issued to James M. Miller for an "improvement in surface condensers for steam engines," and whereas the supreme court of the District of Columbia, on the fourth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ordered, adjudged, and decreed that all right, title, and interest of the said James M. Miller in and to the said invention and letters patent so granted unto him be, and the same are, by said decree, transferred to and vested in the said Isabella C. Youngs in as full, ample, and beneficial a manner, to all intents and purposes, as the same were then held or enjoyed by the said James M. Miller: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Patents, upon due application made to him by the said Isabella C. Youngs, her heirs or assigns, is authorized to extend and renew, in the name of the said Isabella C. Youngs, her heirs or assigns, the said patent of James M. Miller, number fourteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, for an "improvement in surface condensers for steam engines," for and during seven years from and after the twentieth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy, for the use and benefit of the said Isabella C. Youngs, her heirs and assignes, [assigns], upon the same principle and evidence as if the application were made by the original patentee. Approved, April 1, 1869. [PRIVATE-No. 5.] AN ACT for the relief of Joseph P. Fyffe, commander in the United States navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asssembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay Joseph P. Fyffe, commander United States navy, the difference between the pay of a lieutenant and that of a lieutenant commander on the active list, from the sixteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to the second of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Approved, April 10, 1869. [PRIVATE-No. 6.] AN ACT to remove the charge of desertion from certain soldiers of the thirteenth Tennessee cavalry. Be it enacted 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 and directed to remove the charge of desertion or absence without leave from the following-named soldiers of the thirteenth Tennessee cavalry: Company C: Joseph Ward, Wilson Young, John P. Davis, Patterson Green, Marvil Green, William Black, Thomas C. Green, Thomas Poor, Joseph Buchanan, William Ward, William Pitman, Reuben Pitman, George Sizeman. Company B: Shadrick Green, William Street, John Burchfield, Thomas Burchfield, Westly Wright. Approved, April 10, 1869.. [PRIVATE-NO. 7.] AN ACT legalizing the stamping of certain subscription papers executed and issued to the Iowa Northern Central Railroad Company. Whereas in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and subsequent thereto, large sums of money were subscribed to the capital stock of the Iowa Northern Central Railroad Company, a body corporate under the laws of the State of Iowa, for the purpose of constructing a railroad from the city of Mount Pleasant, via Washington and Iowa City, to Cedar Rapids, in said State; and whereas the required United States revenue stamps were not affixed to said subscription papers by the parties executing the same, nor by the said company, in the manner prescribed by law; and whereas the said company, after the said subscrip tion papers came into the hands of said company, stamped the same: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the stamping of said subscription papers is hereby legalized, and the same declared to be valid and of the same force and effect as if the sufficient United States revenue stamps had been placed thereon and cancelled at the date of the execution and delivery of the same, and in the manner prescribed by law Approved, April 10, 1869. INDEX TO THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTIETH CONGRESS AND THE Page. Academy, Military, appropriations for the...... Academy, Naval Appointments of apprentices to..... Appointments to from certain States...................................................................................... Adjutant General's Office, vacancies in the.. Agassiz, Louis, reappointment of.... Agriculture, Department of- Appropriations for ....... Library of the... Alabama- Establishment of post routes in.. Railroad grants to, renewed. Scouts and guides to receive pay............ Alaska, protection of the fur seal in Amendment to the Constitution, proposed American Baptist Home Missionary Society, grant to Apache Indians, appropriations for the Appropriations for the- Agricultural Department.. 6 Arizona, Territory of.. Army Botanic garden.. Cemeteries.. 44 .4, 60, 62–65 55 Courts. Hospitals.. Charities, public, in the District of Columbia.. Colorado, Territory of.. House of Representatives. 54, 55 43 Idaho, Territory of.. Independent treasury. 44, 58 Indians and Indian department. ........................... Interior Department... Invalid pensions.... .14, 32, 159-191 6 Judiciary, the............ 35, 45 Library of Congress.. Marine corps.. Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia Midway Islands, harbor of refuge Military Academy.. Mint and branches, and assay offices Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. National Association for Relief of Colored Women Naval Academy. Naval hospitals... 19, 61 26 47 52 17 |