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FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sxtss. I. OH. 82, 87, 92. 1876. 425 CHAP. 82.-——A11 act for the relief of William L. Nance. APYU 25, 1876. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Theta the Secretary of the _ Payment to \Vi1- Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of Mm L·N¤¤<>*>- any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand dollars, in full compensation for certain property of said William L. Nance, taken for the use of the Government of the United States during the late rebellion. MICHAEL C. KERR Speaker of the House of Representatives. T. W. FERRY President of the Senate pro tcmpore Recehed by the President April 13, 1876. [Noir}; BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become at law without his approval.] CHAP. 87.—·An act to enable Harvey Lull, of Hoboken, New Jersey, to make appli- April 29, 1876. cation to the Commissioner of Patents for extension of letters-patent for a. self- ——·—~——~—— locking shutter-hinge. B0 it enacted by the Senate and House of Repvescntatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the petition of Harvey P¤¢¢¤1W>I{M‘v<>y Lull, of Hoboken, New Jersey, for the extension of letterspzttent for at k5‘;gG({““Y b° °" selflocking shutter-hinge, granted January second, eighteen hundred ‘ and fifty-four, numbered ten thousand four hundred and seventyseven, and extended by the Commissioner of Patents for seven years from the second dey of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, which term expired the second dey of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be, and the same hereby is, referred to the Commissioner of Patents, with full power and authority to hear and determine the same upon the _ principles prescribed by the acts of Congress of July fourth, eighteen }83"» °h· 35% hundred and thirty-six, and the amendments thereof governing and “Sm" 117* granting extensions; and if, after hearing the said petition, upon due notice to the public, according to the practice of the Patent-Ofhee in cases of extension, the said Commissioner should decide that the said petition ought to be granted, he is hereby authorized and empowered to extend said letterspateut to the said Harvey Lull for seven years from and after the passage of this act: Provided, That no damages shall Proviso. be collected of any person for an infringement of said patent between the time of the expiration of said patent and the time of the renewal of the sstme. Approved, April 29, 1876. CHAP. 92.——Au not to remove the poliigcul disabilities ofJz1mes E. Slaughter, of Ala- May 8» 1876- 3.1115. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ofAmeMca in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House con- 1>o11ti¤mdl¤¤bi1— curving therein,) That the political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth ities of J¤m¤¤ E- ztrtiele of mneudment to the Constitution of the United States be, and S1”"€h“°*· they are hereby, removed from J ztmes E. Slaughter, of Alabama. Approved, May 8,.1876.