PRIVATE AOTS OF THE FORTY-TH] RD OONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the jtrst sesswn, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the jirst day of December, 1873, and `wae adjourned without day on Tuesday, the twentythird day of June, 1874. ULYSSES S. GRANT, President. HENRY WILSON, Vice-President and President of the Senate. MATT. H. CARPENTER was elected President of the Senate, pro tempere, pn the eleventh day of December, 1873, and so acted until the end of the session. J AMES G. BLATNE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 2.-An not to remove the disabilities of Thomas S. Bocoek, E. J. Harvie, and Dec. 27, 1873. Daniel f1‘rigg,~of Virginia; and J ohn H. Reagan, of Texas. ""'“‘“`"`“' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rmresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-t 'rds ofeach House concur- _P<>li¤if==¤} disabiliring therein, ) That all political disabilities imposed upon Thomas S. ESQ0gé }.*"f,'““fm§· Bocoek, E. J. Harvie, and Daniel Trigg, of Virginia; and John H. Rea- ,,,0, D,;,,,;, ‘T,.,,,,,' gan, of Texas, by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the John Rwgw. °"' United States, by reason of their participation in the rebellion, are hereby removed. Approved, December 27, 1873. CHAP. 4.-An oct to correct the enrolment of an oct entitled “An act for the relief of J annnry 3, 1874. P. W. Standefer." `”"‘°"’“;'* Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act approved on the Num of G.,\V. third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventyqthree, entitled "An ?:"";§]f;:“ ;,!""?}`“ Q`;] act for the relief of P. W. Stondeler," be, and the same is hereby amended S,,,},,{,,,~,,. ,,1 m,, ' by striking out of the said act where it occurs, and from the title thereto, 1873, ell. 374, Q01, the name of P. W. Standefer, and inserting the name of G. W. Standefer. =<v¤.1>-773. Approved, January 3, 1874. _ CHAP. 12.—Au not to remove the legal and political disabilities of William Steele, of Bexar County, Texas. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatipes of the United P l_ -_ I T _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House con- t ,c°s‘tf’;. cnrring therein) That all legal and political disabilities imposed by virtue smc1H_ ‘ of the iburteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States upon - William Steele, of Bexar County, Texas, he, and the same are hereby, removed. Approved, J uuuary 20, 1874.. ` I Vol. 18, pt. 3-34
