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 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 283, 284, 285, 286. 1868. 403 Szc. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred APP¥°P¥i¤U°¤· thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to carry this act into effect. Approved, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXIV. - An Act to relieve fiom legal and political Disabilities certain July 27, pics. Persons engaged in the late Rebellion. ”`“""”""“ Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives`qf the United ,S'¢ates of America in Oemgress assembled, That all legal and political dis- _ I·¤t‘{¤l_¤¤‘l P0- ubilities imposed by the United States upon Simeon Corley, a citizen of South Carolina, John Milledge, of Augusta, Georgia, Michael Hahn, of persons re— New Orleans, Louisiana, James Bussey, of Morehouse parish, Louisiana, ‘”°§’°dv I. Wm. C. Carr, and John L. Barrett, of Union parish, Louisiana, Richard 6h_ gs °` xl"` H. Cuney, of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Robert Ray, of New Orleans, P . t Louisiana, George W. Christy, of New Orleans, Louisiana, Andrew T. L,,,,lQ:";,_€2_ Stone, of Rocky Comfort, Arkansas, Riley B. Archer, of Arkansas, James II. Hicks, of Arkansas, Rufus L. Archer, of Arkansas, Z. C. Ross, of Arkansas, W. F. Richardson, of Union County, Arkansas, and P. M. B. Young, of Georgia, [be, and the same are hereby, removed.] Approved, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXV. —— An Act granting a Pension to Lucinda J. Letcher. July 27, 1868. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States qi America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- Pension to terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pen-·£;‘g];‘;l:'J sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Lucinda J. Letcher, widow of Joseph Letcher, late a private in company G, ninth Michigan volunteers, commencing October twenty- first, eighteen hundred and sixty-tour. Approved, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXVI. —-· An Act jbrltge I$;eliqfqf Eliza Mascher, Widow of John F. July 27, 1862 JSC E7`. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Eliza Mascher, adminis- Elm liT¤=·;_¤l¤•>¤ tratrix of John F. Masoher, deceased, who obtained a patent No. 9611 ;‘;3§n‘;{’§°nY0f°" for an improvement in dsgqerreotype cases, dated the eighth of March, patent. eighteen hundred and fifty-three, with additional improvement, No. 134, annexed to said- original patent, dated nineteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for fourteen years, which expired on the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be authorized to apply to the commissioner of patents for the extension of said patent for seven years, under the regulations now in force for the extension of patents, as if she had made application previous to its expiration, as required by law; and the commissioner of patents is directed to investigate and decide the application for extension on the same evidence and in the same manner as other applications for extension are decided : Provided, That the ap- Pmviso. plication for extension be made within thirty days after approval of this uct, and the decision of the commissioner be rendered within ninety days from the filing of said application in the patent office: And pro- p,-Ovqw vided further, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to hold responsible in damages any person who may have manufactured or used the daguerreotype cases with the improvement and addition aforesaid, or used cases containing the improvement and addition aforesaid, between _ the expiration of the patent and the approval of this act: And provided P¤`°*'¤¤<>· also, That the commissioner shall be satisfied before granting such extension that it will enure entirely to the beneit of the said Eliza Maschcr. Armovsn, July 27, 1868.