PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTY-NIN TH CONGRESS or rm: UNITED STATES, Passed at the jirst session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December, 1885, and was atbourned without day on Thursday, the ji/th day of August, 1886. Gnovnn CLEVELAND, President; J 011N SHERMAN was elected President of the Senate pro tempore on the seventh day of December, 1885, and continued so to act until the end of the session; JOHN G. CARLISLE was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on the seventh day of December, 1885. CHAP. 1.—An not for the relief of Alexander R. Lawton, of the State of Georgia DW- 26a 1885- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives if the United , States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of eac House con- Alex. R. Law- ' curring therein) That Alexander R. Lawton, of .the State of Georgia, is *¤¤· , _ hereby relieved of all political disabilities imposed upon him by the ab1;,§:‘,:*f:1°m°‘;;;: third section of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. . Approved, December 26, 1885. CHAP. 2.-An act granting a pension to Julia D. Grant. Dee. 26, 1885. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- Julia D. Grant. terior be, and he hereby is, directed to place the name of Julia D. Grant, P¤¤¤i¤¤· widow of the late Ulysses S. Grant, deceased, on the pension-roll, an — to pay her a pension during her natural life at the rate of five thousand dollars a year from and after the twenty-third day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-tive. Approved, December 26, 1885. CHAP. 10.-An act granting a pension to Matthias Leckner. Feb. 15, 1886. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ¢¥hRepresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, at the Secretary of the Inte- H•f¢hi¤¤ L·=¤\- rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension- ’°,&°m,°u_ roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Matthias Leckner, late a private in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment Kansas Infantry Volunteers. Approved, February 15, 1886. CHAP. 11.-An not for the relief of Joseph W. Parish. Feb. 20, 1886. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Joseph w. Par- Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Joseph W. Parish, i¤b· inte of Peoria, Illinois, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise P“Y'“°”‘ "°- (653)
