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 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS or run _ UNITED STATES, Passed at the jirst session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December, 1883, and was adjourned without day on Monday, the seventh day of July, 1884. Cmssrnn A. Anrrrua, President; Gmoncm F. Enmurms was elected President of the Senate pro tempore on the fourteenth day of January, 1884; J 0HN G. CARLISLE was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on the third day of December, 1883, and acted as such until the fifth day of July, 1884, when J osmrn C. S. Bnscmzrmn was elected Speaker pro tempore and acted as such until the termination of the session. CHAP. 5.-An act to remove the ppllitlieal disabilities of Samuel H. Lockett, of Jan. 31, 1884. ams. ————;- 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- S¤m¤¤l H- L<>¤l<~ ourring therein), That all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth °*§,Em0m, of 0_ amendment to the Constitution of the United States be, and the same 1,,,,,,,1 d,,,,,b,m§,,,_ are hereby, removed from Samuel H. Lockett, of Alabama. Approved, January 31st, 1884. CHAP. 13.-—Ln act for the relief of Louisa Boddy. Mar. 20, 1884. 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- Louisa Boddy- ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in R°]*°f °f· the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Louisa Boddy, of County, State of Oregon, the sum of five thousand four hundred dollars, in full settlement of her claim against the Government for depredations committed and property taken and destroyed by the Modoc Indians on or about November twentyminth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Approved, March 20th, 1884t CHAP. 15.-An act for the relief of the devisees of the late Daniel Carroll. Mar. 22, 1884. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ I C H States of America in Congress assembled, That the devisees under the °f%;‘Q;§,ng,:,:'f,°g will of the late Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, deceased, their heirs or ,,,,,,,,,,.q_ ’ assigns, may prosecute a suit in the Court of Claims, according to the Relief of devirules of practice and proceedings in said court, against the District of ¤¤¤¤» ¤*°·» "*`~ Columbia, to recover such damages, if any, as they have sustained by reason of the change of grade and the regrading of the streets around square numbered seven hundred and thirty six in the city of Washing ton; and the said court, if it shall appear that said claim for damages has not heretofore been presented or prosecuted before any board of audit established by the provisions of the act of Congress approved 16 $'¤¤*¤·. 118- (525)