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 FORTYFIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 255, 256, 257, 258, 270. 1878. 569 CHAP. 255.-An act granting a pension to Agatha O’Brien, widow of John P. J. June 15, 1878. O’Brien, brevet major 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- Agatha 0’Brlen. rior be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the pension-roll, subject Pension toto the limitations and provisions of the pension-laws, the name of Agatha O’Drien, widow of Brevet Major John _P. J. O’Brien, Fourth Artillery, United States Army. Approved, June 15, 1878. CHAP. 256.-An act to remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Juno 15, 1876, Alfred Roullmd ——-—·—————- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War bc, Alfred Roulond. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remove the charge of M¤l¤¤¤‘5' MON] desertion now standing upon the records of the War Department against °°"°°“d‘ the name of Alfred Roulaud, late of the Twenty-third and Twenty-eighth Regiments Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and to grant to said ltonland an honorable discharge as of the date of April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, with the same pay and bounty he would have been entitled to if he had been honorably discharged the military service on said day. Approved, June 15, 1878. CHAP. 257.-—-An act for the relief of Thomas A. Nicholson. June 15, 1878, Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- T.A. Nicholson. ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any moneys in P¤y¤¤¢¤¤ *¤· the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Thomas A. Nicholson, of Iredell County, North Carolina, the sum of one hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-six cents, the same being the amount of a tax wrongfully collected and paid into the Treasury heretofore upon a lot of tobacco, - the property of said Nicholson, when the said tobacco was not liable to the tax. Approved, June 15, 1878. CHAP. 258.-An act to remove the political disabilities of Robert T. Chapman of June 15, 1878, Wharton County Texas. · ·—-—-—-—-———- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House concurr-ing therein ), That the political disabilities imposed upon Robert T. g-i!`-_Ch;*l,°F¤¤,;{, Chapman of Whartoix County Texas by the fourteenth amendment of m,,;’;;}::v€,f"' the Constitution of the United States, on account of his participation in the rebellion are hereby removed. Approved, June 15, 1878. _ CHAP. 270.-An act granting a pension to James C. Downer. Jl1D0 19. 1878- 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- J. C.1)owno;·. rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of P°¤¤¤°¤ *°· James C. Downer, late captain of Company E in the Sixth Regiment of Louisiana Mexican War Volunteers, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and to pay him the sum of fifty dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the second day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Approved, June 18, 1878.