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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTIETH CONGRESS on cum UNITED STATES Passed at the Second Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Oolumbia, on Moazday, the second day of December,A. D.1867; was acyoumed on Mbndcay, the twenty-seventh day of Juqy, A. D. 1868, to meet at Washington, on Monday, the twentygirst day of September, A. D. 1868 ; met at Washington on said twentyyirst day of September, and was, on that clay, <u§0urned to meet at Washington on Friday the sixteenth day of October, A. D. 1868 ,· met at Washington on said sixteenth day of October, and was, on that day, adjourned to meet at Washington on Zhcsday the tenth day of Nbvembor, A. D. 1868 ; met at Washinyton on said tenth day of November, and wds then adjourned without day. Ammsw JOHNSON, President. BENJAMIN F. WADE, President.of the Senate. Scuuyum Comux, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. IV. -An Act for the Relief of Orlaf E. Dreutzcr, [ate Consul of the United States JM- U, 1868- to the Kingdom <y" Norway. -—-__—`- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Sccrctm-y of the Pntyment to Treasury is hereby directed, out of any money in the treasury not other- 2;* E‘ D'°°°' wise appropriated, to pay Orlaf E. Drcutzcr, lam c0nsurt0 Bergen, eight ` hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thrty-seven cents, in coin, for consular salary from the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty- five, to the twenty-fourth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, less the amount of consular foes received by him during that time. Ammovmv, January 11. 1868. CHAP. XII. — An Act jbr the Reliqf of Captain O. P. Johnson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Smzes of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Wm· be, Payment to and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to C. P. Johnson, late a 0* P'J°h°s°”' captain in the seventeenth Iowa. infhntry, the amount by law allowed to a captain of infantry in the regular army, upon the retired list, said pay to commence Hom the time of his muster out from the said seventeenth Iowa infantry. APPROVED, February 21, 1868. CHAP. XIV. —An Act for the Reliqctcf Horace Smith and D. B. Wcssen, or their Feb. 26, 1868. sszgns. ·········** Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Horace Smith and D. B. Smith & wes, VVesson, or their assigns, have lcavc to make application to the ccmmis- ¤<>¤ my qppiyf signer of patents for an extension of the letters patent thr improvement £§t;‘;°""‘°" ° in repeating fire-arms issued to said Horace Smith and D. B. W'css0n for the term of fourteen years from the fourteenth day of Fcbru2.ry, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and reissued on the tenth day of October of the same year, in the same manner as if the petition for said extension had been iilcd nt least ninety days prior to the expiration of said patent; and that the commissioner be authorized to consider and determine said application in the same manner as if it had been filed ninety days before the expiration of the said patent. AP1’ROVEIQ, Fcbruamy 25, 1868.