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 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 8, 31, 32, 33. 1869. 605 Youngs, her heirs or assigns, is authorized to extend and renew, in the Wn6W9d to name of the said Isabella C. Youngs, her heirs or assigns, the said patent $:335: C of James M. Miller, number fourteen thousand nine hundred and twenty· ° i 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 pzttentee. Arr¤0vm1>, April 1, 1869. CHAP. XXXI.—An Act for the Relief q/'Joseph P. Fyjé, Oemmande- in the United April 10, 1869. States Navy. j""""' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Umzgress assembled, 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 be- Payment to tween the pay of a lieutenant and that of a lieutenant commander on the J°s°Ph P' FYE°‘ 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. CHAP. XXXII. —An Act to remove the Charge ofDeéertion _/rom certain Soldiers g' the April 10. 1869- Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry. Be it enacted by the/Senate and House of Representatives ¢y" 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 deser- G]¤¤fg¤ ¤f d6- tion or absence without leave from the following-named soldiers of the §;?nQ°§£QfQV€d thirteenth Tennessee cavalry: soldiers of the Company C: Joseph Ward, Wilson Young, John P. Davis, Patterson *h**`F°°*gh Tf“’ Green, Marvil Green, William Black, Thomas C. Green, Thomas Poor, umm uva ry` Joseph Buchanan, William Ward, William Pitman, Reuben Pitman, George Sizeman. Company B: Shadrick Green, William Street, John Burchfield, Thomas Burclifield, Westly Wright. Approved, April 10, 1869. CHAP. XXXIII. -—An Act Iegalking the Stamping of certain Subscription Papers exe- April 10, 1869. cuted and issued to the Iowa Narthem Central Railroad Conqzany. """"—" WHEREAS in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and subsequent Preamble. 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 adixed 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 subscription papers came into the hands of said company, stamped the same: Therefore, _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives af the United ccg$¤;*l;;*l€ °Y States of America in Congress assembled, That the stamping of said sub- miptions to tho scription papers is hereby legalized, and the same declared to be valid capitmlstoek of and of the same force and effect as if the sufficient United States revenue gf: ggggq-§°“h` stamps had been placed thereon and cancelled at the date of the execu- R_ R_ C., legal. tion and delivery of the same, and in the manner prescribed by law. ized- Approved, April 10, 1869.