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 FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 93, 96, 97. 1880. 541 name of Peter K. Morgan, a private in Captain Andrew Stevenson’s Company of Virginia Infantry in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. Approved, May 14, 1880. CHAP. 96.-An act for the relief of George Heard. May 19, 188,, Whereas George Heard, of Pettis County, Missouri, did on June Proamblo eighth, eighteen hundred and nfty-two, at the then Clinton (Missouri) I land-office, attempt to locate bounty-land warrant number sixty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight, for one hundred and sixty acres of land, act of eighteen hundred and forty- seven, issued to Chester Hebner, upon the west half of lot two of northeast quarter and east half of lot two of northwest quarter, section two, township forty-five, and west half of southeast quarter, section thirty-Eve, township forty-six, range twenty-one, the transfer of said bounty-land warrant being in blank, and the said land—warrant and the application of said George Heard to locate the same upon said lands were duly forwarded to the General Land Office in Washington, District of Columbia, and were returned by said General Land Office to the Clinton (Missouri) landoffice for correction, and were burned and destroyed in said land·ofIice, November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, at Warsaw Missouri, to which said Clinton land-office had been removed, and said Heard was not noiined of the said return of said warrant for correction, and could not therefore make the correction, and did not know of the said defective assignment of said warrant or its return for correction or its destruction until very recently, and until said Chester Hebner, in whose name such warrant was issued, had died or disappeared, and it was impossible for him to correct said error, and said George Heard did, in July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, pay the purchase-money for said lands, two hundred dollars in cash, and make a cash entry of the same, and receive a patent therefor, and was at the time of the attempted location of said landwarrant the actual and real owner thereof, and no other person has ever claimed or attempted to locate the same, and said warrant is now lost and destroyed; and said George Heard is in justice entitled to have issued to him another land-warrant in lieu of said warrant so burned: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper officers of the George Heard. Interior Department be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to pre- 15***} W%””#¤‘· PM'? and oau e to be issued and delivered to the said George Heard, up M °' assignee of Chester Hebner, a bounty-land warrant, for one hundred and sixty acres of land, in lieu of said bounty-land warrant number sixty- one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight, issued under said act of Congress of eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and so burned and destroyed, in such form that the same can be located by said George Heard, or assigned and transferred by him, and located by his assignee. Approved, May 19, 1880. GHAP. 97. -An mt to remove the peiitieai aieabintiee of Thomas L. Harrison of Mo- May gg, ieee bile, Alabama. _ —————-——·r···— 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- jrhomes L. Har- Guwing therein), That all political disabilities imposed upon Thomas L- migniit, I dmbu H§r1'l‘iSon, of Mobile, Alabama, by the fourteenth amendment to the Con- ties? ‘°°' stitution of the United Sta "es, be, and the same are hereby, removed. Approved, May 22, 1880.