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 732 FORTY——SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 156-158, 161, 162. 1873. Fel}- 17, 1873- CHAP. CLVI. — An Act granting a Pension to Margarett A. Renshaw, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United MP¤¤si<>n to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inu-;- Rg§;€;° A‘ rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Margarett A. Renshaw, mother of Alexander D. Renshaw, late assistant engineer of the United States revenue-steamer " lVilderness," at the rate of ten dollars per month, to take effect from the passage of this act. APPROVED, February 17, 187 3. Feb. 17, 1873. CHAP. CLVII. -—-An Act to remove the Disabilities if certain Persons herein named. Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _l:"oliticaldisa- States of America in Congress assembled, (two—thirds of each house conblléfsvxgrgigitéu curring therein,) That all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Oihers ,.€mOv€d_ amendment of the Constitution upon Lafayette l\IcLaws, Allred Iverson, Martin J. Crawford, Lucius J. Gartrell, Goode Bryan, Benjamin C. Yancey, and John W. H. Underwood, of Georgia ; WVilliam N. H. Smith, Burton Craig, and Samuel A. Ashe, of North Carolina; John V. lllright, of Tennessee; F. YV. Latham, of Texas; David Clopton, of Alabama; and Isaac N. Brown, of Mississippi, be, and they are hereby, removed. Approved, February 17, 1873. Feb. 17, 1873. CHAP. CLVIII. —An Act for the Relief of R. H. Pratt. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to R. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- H‘P“*“· ury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to R. H. Pratt, tirst lieutenant tenth cavalry, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Interior Department that the horse was worth, for horse stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. Approved, February 17, 1873. Feb. 18, 1873. CHAP. CLXI. -—An Actfir the Relic/`<y"James B1. Hagar. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment M States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- J”‘m" M‘H“g“‘ ury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the ‘ treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James lll. Hagar, of Richmond, Maine, owner of the ship “Ida Lilly," one thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, illegally exacted from the master of said ship, and afterward covered into the treasury of the United States. Approved, February 18, 1873. Feb. 18, 1873. CHAP. CLXII. — An Act jbr the Relief of John Zlfller. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Cbtited Credit to be States mf America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General be, 1'Q}l?f;;d John and he is hereby, directed to allow John Miller, postmaster at Newark, Delaware, credit for such sum of money, not exceeding one hundred and sixty-tive dollars, as shall cover the amount of paid money-orders, and of money-order and postal funds, which shall appear to the Postmaster- General, upon evidence satisfactory to him, to have been destroyed by the burning of the office of said postmaster, on the twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Approved, February 18, 1873.