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556 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 197-200. 1880. a. church lamp, March ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, paid as impost duty, the sum of seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents; also on twenty-one cases of paintings on glass, rc-- ceived por steamer France, of date Aprrl first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, upon which was paid. an impost duty of forty per centum ad valorem tax, amounting to the sum of eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents, amounting to the total sum of two thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and seven cents. Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay the said sum of money to the said university upon the execution and delivery to him by the president thereof of proper receipts therefor. _ Approved, June 10, 1880. Juno 10, 1g8g_ CHAP. 198.-An act for the relief of William D. Oyler. Preamble. Whereas, William D. Oyler, purchased of the UnitedStates, by cash entry on the twenty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy- four, at Dixon, Illinois, the west half of the northeast quarter of section nineteen, in township twenty-six north, of range six east, and paid therefor the sum of one hundred dollars, and afterward conveyed the same to Jacob Jackson, who conveyed the sameto Peter H. Bigelowand John Jackson, who were in fact, partners in trade; and Whereas afterward the title of said William D. Oyler and his assignees to said land failing, by reason of conflict of his entry with a prior preemption claim thereon of John Shumaker, and the said William D. Oyler, because of said failure of title, having as appears afterward refunded the purchase-money to said Peter H. l3igelow and John Jackson, and thereby became entitled to have said original purchase-money refunded to him by the United States; and Whereas the same has never been refunded because of technical insufficiency of the quit-claim made by said assignees to said Oyler: Now, therefore, ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United William D. Oy- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Intemkm t , (1 f rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund and pay to - 1,,nds‘;`;‘}u,?£d_ °r said William D. Oyler, or his legal representatives, the sumof one hundred dollars in full satisfaction and discharge of any claim in the premises. Approved, June 10, 1880. J uno 10, 1880. CHAP. 199.—An act to remove the political disabilities of William Sharp of Virginia. _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United EVi1lL1_={ml2?¤1lifi States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House concur- ,t,0g’r;;;“v°‘f“ ‘ ‘ ring therein), That all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States on William Sharp of Virginia be and the same are hereby removed. Approved, June 10, 1880. June 10, 1880. CHAP. 200.—An act to remove the political disabilities of Abner Smead of Oregon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United gbi}? S$}=¤1i)_] States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each Home 00%- iH6;;€Lf2ve(f“ ‘ ‘ curring therein), That all disabilities imposed upon Abner Smead of Oregon by the third section of the fourteenth article of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States be, and the same are hereby removed Approved, June 10, 1880.