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 F ORTIETH CONGRESS. S1·:ss. III. Ch. 12, 14, 17, 18. 1869. 437 CHAP. XII. -— An Act to relieve William H. Bagley, of Wake County, North Carolina. Jan. 18, 1869. Be it enacted by the Senate and fhuse of Representatives if the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of each house concur- William H. ring therein,) 'I`hat all political disabilities imposed by the third section ?“gl"Y fQll"‘(°d of the fourteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the £2i,£;L£9' United States be, and the same are hereby, removed from NVilliam H. Bagley, of the county of Wake, in the State of North Carolina. Approved, January 18, 1869. CHAP. XIV. ——-An Act to relieve jrom Disabilities R. W. Best and Samuel F. Phillqos, J¤»¤· 22, 1869. of North Carolina. W- Be it enacted by the Senate and House cg' Representatives of the United States ey" America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of each house con- ·B°?*F curring,) That all political disabilities imposed by the United States upon i>lj,,,,,:;n;§,8,,Q,,d 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, d‘S“b‘1"°‘°”‘ removed. Approved, January 22, 1869. CHAP. XVII. — An Act fir the Relief if Rufus M Hollister, of Janesville, Wisconsin. Jim, 80, 1369, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Matted States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Rl;¤Y¤Q¤¤¤ to ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Rufus M. HSC`? ‘I' H°l` 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 Yitqzz to “Little Rock Island," in the Jhssissippi Jan. 80, ISGL wer. ( Whereas, according to the official plat of the survey of the public land P*'°“ml’l°· returned to the general land office by the surveyongeneral, 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 thirty- nine 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, Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ “L_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the title to the said island ,,eT,lg§kt‘}s,an:,°I, 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