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FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Suse. III. Ch. 123-125, 127. .1873. 727 delivery under a contract made in December, eighteen hundred and sixty- four, between the said Burnside and the said Risley, supervising special agent of the -Unit;ed States treasury, in pursuance of an act of Congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act 1864, ch. 225. in addition to the several acts concerning commercial intercourse between V°1·Xm· P· 375 loyal and insurrectionary States, and to provide for the collection of captured and abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in States declared in insurrection," the said one-fourth of the proceeds of the sales of said cotton having been withheld b the said H. A. Risley, and by him paid into the treasury of the United &ates. A1-rxzovmn, February 7, 187 3. CHAP. CXXIH.—An Act to remove the Qisabilities of A. B. Hardcastle, nf Missis· Feb. 8, 1873. app:. ‘—""""··— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each imma `con- Disabumcsm. eu»·rin.g therein,) That all disabilities imposed by reason of the third sec- moved from A- tion of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States B` H‘“‘1°“‘“l°‘ of America upon A. B. Hardcastle, of the county of Munro, in the State of Mississippi, by reason of his participation in the late rebellion, be, and the same are hereby, removed. APPROVED, February 8, 1873. CHAP. CXXIV.-An Act to remove the Disabilities of William A. Graham, a Citizen F¢b· 8, 1873· qfN0rth Carolina. _*`_—""` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each house com Disabilities recwrring therein,) That all legal and political disabilities ‘imposed by the ¤¥¤<>V€d *`¤'<>¤* WW Constitution of the United States upon William A. Graham, a citizen of ham A' Graham' North Carolina, in consequence of participation in the recent rebellion, be, and the same are hereby, removed. APPROVED, February 8, 1873. CHAP. CXXV.—An Act grantlnga Spensjon to Mary E. Snively and Marilla. S. Feb. 8, 1873. nwey. j‘_"* Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Pension tg rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pen- g1’h’¥u§}iBQ’§°1Y sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the Shiva)., ' names of Mary E. Snively and Marilla S. Snively, only minor children of Abraham Snively, late a. private of company F, fourteenth regiment of Michigan infantry volunteers. APPROVED, February 8, 1873. CHAP. CXXVII. ——An Act to reimburse George S. Fisher for Losses sustained in the Building and Burning up of the Consulate 3/ the United States at Kanagawa, Japan, November twenty-szxth, ezghtcen hundred an smt_y—szx. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the De- GcT;<;_¤S¢#é¢gisher partment of State be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to audxt ,_wn$L],0 be ’ the losses sustained by George S. Fisher while consul of the United audited; ' States at Kauagawei, Japan, for the destruction of any public moneys for which he has accounted to the United States, not exceeding the amount of one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars, in value of Mexican dollars, lost. and destroyed by the burning of the new consulate building at his post of duty by the same hre of November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. _ _ Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, author- and pardized to pay the sum so audited by the Secretary of- the Department of State out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appr0pr1a.ted, not