, PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS or mma UNITED STATES, Passed at the Second Session, which was begun and held at the Cityof Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December, A. D. 18d9, and was adjourned without day on Friday the fifteenth day of July, A. D. 1870. Umrssns S. GRANT, President. Sonurmm Cotrax, Vice·President and President of the Senate. HENRY B. Anrnonr was elected President of the Senate pro tempore on the twenty-eighth day of May, A. D. 1870, and so acted until and including June third; also on the first of July, and so acted until and including July fifth; was again elected President pro tempore on the fourteenth day of July, and so acted until the end of the session. JAMES G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. I. -- An Act to relieve certain Persons therein named fom the leyzl amgdpoliticat Bw T4. 1869- Disabilities imposed by the jburteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the Unit States, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House concurring therein,) That all legal and political disabilities imposed by the _ _Legsu an_d_pofourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, by reason ¥;£gLg§?;’(;};;‘€“ of participation in the late rebellion, be, and they hereby are, removed ccmmpei-Somgu from the following persons, namely: ALABAEIA. Alabama; Robert Ware, of Blount county; J. J. Cowden and Elijah Self, of Jefferson county; Alexander McKinstry and John R. Tompkins, of Mobile county; N. B. Mardis, of Shelby county; John S. Morange, Henry W. Pickens, H. K. Wickle, and Jeptha. Edwards, of Etowah county; J. A. McCutcheon and Absalom Jackson, of Elmore county; G. T. Yelverton, of Coffee county; T. G. Cornish, of Marengo county; Samuel F. Palmer, Dr. Peter Bryce, of Tuscaloosa county, and Charles C. Crowe, of Perry county; Joseph W. Phillips, of Lee county; Robert D. Sims, Michael Burk, and Frank E. Saurin, of Lowndes county; George McDuffy, of Marion county; W. A. J. Swan, George Forrister, and Z. M. Hutchins, of Randolph county; Elias M. Kiels, of Barbour county; J. H. Weaver and William H. Ogbourne, of Montgomery county; A. J. Due, of Elmore county; A. A. West, of Clay county; Eph Latham, of Jackson county; Charles A. Edwards, Jesse R. Jones, Charles S. G. Doster, of Autauga county; and YV. B. Modawell, of Perry county. ARKANSAS. Arkansas. Yancey B. Shapard, of Pope county; Levander Sykes and James H. Low, of Johnson county; Wilson C. Jones, of I/Ell [Yell] county; James E. White, Frank Clark, Thomas H. Clark, James I. Hudson, and John T. Chidester, of Ouachita county; E. W. Gantt, S. L. Griffith, P. O. __ Hooper, and E. W. Garrett, of Pulaski county; Alexander Mason, of
