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 _ FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. (.}]]..36, 37, 38, 39, 41. 1876. 419 amount paid by First Lieutenant Henry Jackson, property and disbursing officerin the signal-service, to Matt France and George M. Brown, citizens of Colorado Springs, Colorado Territory, on false vouchers, and to David H. Sackett, sergeant in the signal-service, United States Army, on false receipts presented by him. MICHAEL C. KERR Speaker of the House of Representatives. T. W. FERRY President of the Senate pro tempore. Received by the President March 11, 1876. [Norm nv 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.] CHAP. 37.-—A.n act granting a pension to Elizabeth B. Dyer, widow of Alexander B. March 25, 1876. Dyer, late brigadiengeneral and Chief of Ordnance United States Army. ··········—i·-— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- P**¤Si<>¤ #0 Elizrior be, and he is hereby` authorized and directed to place on the “b‘”‘h It DY°"· pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pensiondaws, the name of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Dyer, widow of Alexander B. Dyer, late brigadiergeneral and Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, and pay her a pension at the rate of fifty dollars per month, from and after the passage of this act. Approved, March 25, 1876. CHAP. 38.——An act to relieve the political disabilities of Robert Tansill, of Virginia MMGD 95, 1876- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, (Two thirds of each House c0n— ,t_Pf°l¥§’*L*lf3»_b*]· curring therein,) That all the political disabilities under which Robert ;,}f"° ° B" “’“' Tansill, of Prince William County, Virginia, lies, under and by force of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, be removed. Approved, March 25, 1876. CHAP. 39.—An act approving an act of the legislative assembly of Colorado Ter- Mami; 27, 1876_ ritory. _ ——-—-——————— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act TA*2* of ?0l°Ye$l_<% for the relief of J otham A. Draper," passed by the legislative assembly Ofggglfm °,‘{_r,‘5I{;_ of Colorado Territory, approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and per ,,pp,·0vGa_ ` seventy-two, be, and the same is hereby, approved. _ Approved, March 27, 1876. _ CHAP. 41.-5An act for the relief of Hibbcn and Company, of Chicago, Illinois. March 30, 1876. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United · States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Payment W UW- ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Hibben and b°“ Md C°“‘P°“Y‘ Company, of Chicago, Illinois, the sum of three thousand nine hundred