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 578 FORTY·FIF'1‘H CONGRESS. `Sess. II. Ch. 305, 306, 307, 308,332. 1878. June 18, 1878. CHAP. 305.-An act granting a pension to Sarah J. Goss. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sarah J.Go¤¤. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the P¤¤¤i¤¤ to- Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pensionlaws, the name of Sarah J. Goss, widow of Greenberry Goss, late a pilot on the gunboat Covington. · Approved, June 18, 1878. June 18, 1878. CHAP. 306.-An act granting a pension to Ezra 0. Nye, Company K. Nineteenth -- --——·-—— Michigan Volunteers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United E. O. Nye. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Pensivn w- rior be, and he is hereby, directed to place upon the pension-roll, the name of Ezra O. Nye, late of Company K. Nineteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pensionlaws, and to pay him a pension from and after the passage of this act. Approved, June 18, 1878. June 18, 1878. CHAP. 307.-An act granting a pension to John S. Hall, of West Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _y_ S_H,,u_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Pension to. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pensionlaws, the name of John S. Hall, of West Virginia, late an enlisted teamster in the service of the United States, at the rate of twenty-tive dollars per month, he having become totally blind from disease contracted in the service. Approved, June 18, 1878. June 18, 1878. CHAP. 308.-An act for the relief of John W. Skiles. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United J. w. Skates. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Payment lo. ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty cents, to John W. Skiles, being the amount expended and paid by him for the services of civilian clerks in the discharge of his duties as commandant of the draft and recruiting rendezvous for the State of Ohio, at Tod Barracks, Columbus, Ohio, during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-four and eighteen hundred and sixty-tive, in the recruiting of the Army of the United States. Approved, June 18, 1878. June 19, 1878. CHAP. 332.-An act for the removal of the political disabilities of H. A. Edmund- -—-———-—— son of Salem, Virginia Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House conn, A, Edmund- curring therein), That the political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth mn. _ _ _ _ amendment to the Constitution of the United States upon H. A. mE:¥;:;g;;g”b'l‘ Edmundson of the State of Virginia be, and the same are hereby removed. ` Approved, June 19, 1878.