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 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1, 2. 1869. Ch. 15, 16. 1870. 613 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act to prescribe an oath l'm»,°h· 128- of office, and for other purposes," anything in any other act to the con- V°f m` P601 trary notwithstanding. Approved, December 14, 1869. CHAP. II. — An Act to remove political Disabilities of certain Persons therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House con- Le al and P0_ curring therein,) That all legal and political disabilities imposed by the liticalldisabilities fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, by rea- ’°'“°Y°d**°‘“ son of participation in the rebellion, be, and they hereby are, removed me p°"°°°' from the following persons, namely: Philemore B. Hawkins, of Franklin County, in the State of North Carolina, and C. R. Mobley, of Tampa, in the State of Florida, and D. H. McCall, of Union-Springs, Alabama. Approved, December 18, 1869. CHAP. XV. -—An Act for the Relief of Allnzor Ckxrk. pcb_ g, 1g7g_ Be it enacted by the Senate and [muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of pat- P‘gf“_€(°fAH”‘ ents, upon due application made to him, is authorized to extend the zgrextgidxrlh patent of Alinzor Clark for " fastening for hay and manure forks," dated &<>- March the fifth, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty, and which expired on the fifth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, upon the same evidence and principles as if application had been made to him by the said patentee in due time prior to the expiration of said patent: Provided, That, in case the commissioner on due inquiry shall extend said patent, that all persons who shall have made use of said invention between the period of the expiration of said patent and the extension of the same shall be relieved from all liability for said use. Approved, February 9, 1870. CHAP. XVI. —- An Act jar the Relief of S. and HC. Sayles. Feb. 12, 1870. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Obngress assembkd, That the Secretary of War be, Peppisrét ft; and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay the sum of eighty-eight S'“ ‘ ey °" thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifteen cents to S. and H. Sayles, of Killingly, Connecticut, in full satisfaction and discharge of all claims and demands whatsoever of said parties upon the government of the United States arising out of a contract made by them in the month of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive, to furnish clothing for the army of the United States. J. G. BLAINE, _ Speaker of the House of Representatives. SCHUYLER. COLFAX, Wee-President of the United States and President of the Senate. Endorsed by the President: “Rec’d Feb’y lst, 1870." [Norm BY THE DEPARTMENT or STATE. —- The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]