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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTIETH CONGRESS or run UNITED STATES, Passed at the Third Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Jlhnday, the seventh day m" December, A. D. 1868, and was aohourned without day on Thursday, the fourth day of llhrc/z, A. D. 1869. ANDREW Jounson, President. BENJAMIN F. WADE, President of the Senate. ·SCHUYLI§R Comvsx, Speaker of the House of Representatives, until the third day of March, A. D. 1869, on which day he resigned, and THEODORE M. POMEROY was elected Speaker, and so acted for the remainder of the session. CHAP. I.-An Act to relieve jrom Disabilities Franklin J. Moses, a Citizen of South Dec, 11, 1868, Carolina. '*"—"" Bait enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each house concur- Franklin J. ring therein,) That all political disabilities imposed on Franklin J. Moses, g}°;:f,g;g?‘3§g_ a citizen of South Carolina, by reason of the third section of the fbur- abimm, teenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, removed. Approved, December 11, 1868. CHAP. III. —An Act to authorize the Secretary ofState to adjust the Claim of Gustavus pm; 15, ]3g3_ G. Cushman far Office Rent while Commissioner under the Reciprocity Treaty. -—"‘—"·‘—_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ty' the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State is Accounts of hereby authorized to reopen and adjust the accounts of Gustavus G. g“":“"“° E-,) 0 ~n lt t an · e in 1m ma l-out n-an ‘*S¥"‘“" ° ° Us man, a e commissioner o s cries un er e a c p y y ,,d_,u,wd_ with Great Britain, so far as relates to a claim for office rent, upon the Sec Vol. xvi. same basis as allowed to all the successors of said Cushman in said office. l" 1°‘ Approved, December 15, 1868. CHAP. V.—An Act to relieve certain Persons of all political Disabilities imposed by the Dec. 22, 1868. Fourteenth Article of the Amendments to the (hnstitution if the United States. 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- Fgyaivzlsggil curring therein,) That all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth meglfmm mr ` article of the amendments of the Constitution of the United States upon tain nersons. the following citizens of South Carolina, viz: Andrew Ramsey, of Edgetield county; W. L. Hewiotz, of Sumter county; `William A. McDan1e1s, James Harrison, and John H. Goodwin, of Greenville county ; William J. Mixson, of Barnwell county; Johnson J. Knox, of Sumter county;