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FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 187, 189-192. 1873. 735 and Company the amount awarded by s, board of officers appointed as a court of inquiry by special order of the War Department, Adjuta,11t-Ganera]1’s office, number six hundred and seventeen, dated December thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Approved, February 21, 1873. CHAP. CLXXXVII. —An Act ta relieve from Disabilities W] R. Boggs, of Missouri. Fab. 22, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each house concur- Disabilities rering therein,) That all political disabilities imposed upon W. R. Boggs, a,·I’Q°}’.,€d Mm W- giuizen of Missouri, by reason of the fourteenth article of the amendments0g8S' to the Constitution of the United States, bc, and tha same are hereby removed. Approved, February 22, 1873. CHAP. CLXXXIX.—An Ac! for the Relief of John W. Mears, Administrator of the Feb. 24, 1873. Estate cj Henry D. Mears, deceased, and of W illiam Moulton, Junior. jj" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That John W. Mears, adminis- John W. _ _ trator of the estate of the late Henry D. Mears, and William Moulton, E:?0'f·n‘:gm:"’] junior, have leave to make 2, new application to the commissioner of pat- pop ex¥enS{,,,I£·y outs, for the extension of the 1ctters—pat,ent granted to the late Henry D. i¢¤¤¤F¤·p¤¤=¤¤· Mears and "William Moulton, junior, July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, for an improvement in car seals, for fourteen years from said date, in the same manner as they could have done at least ninety days before the expiration of said patent, and that the commissioner of patents be authorized to consider and determine said application in the same manner, and with the same effect as if it had been filed ninety days bcforc the expiration of said patent: Provided, That no damages shall be Provinccollected by any person for an infringement of said `patenb between the time of the expiration of said patent and the time of the extension of the same. APPROVED, February 24, 1873. CHAP. CXC, —— An Act granting a Pension to Judith Dunham. Feb. 24, 1873. Be 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 be Jurior be, and he is hereby, authorized aud directed to place upon the pen- d‘“‘ D““b““’· sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Judith Dunham, widow of George L. Dunham, late a private in the seventh regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, and afterwards transfcrrcd to the United States gun-boat; “CiI10i\’\llBj'»i,”3.t the rate of eight dollars per month, from and after the passage of this act. APPROVED, February 24, 1873. CHAP. CXCI. —An Act granting a Pension to Deborah Witham. Feb. 24, 1873. Be 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 fp rior ba, and he is hereby, authorized aud directed to place upon the pen- gf;’°'“h WM` sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Deborah WVitham, mother of Alvah C. Witham, late a private in company “K," thirty-second regiment Maine volunteers. Armzovmn, February 24, 1873. CHAP. CXCh. — An Act granting a Pension to Thomas Lunney- Feb. 24, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and Iknse ty" Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secremry of the Inte- Tg’<¤¤S?<>1¤;€° ricr bc, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place upon the pen- °m” `m°€y`