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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTY·SECOND CONGRESS on rms: UNITED STATES, Passed at the Second Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December, A. D. 1871, and was adjourned without day on Monday, the tenth day of June, A. D. 1872. Unrssns S. GRANT, President. Scnornnn Comssx, Vice-President and President of the Senate. HENRY B. AN·rHONY was elected President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the twenty-third day of February, A. D. 1872, and so acted until the twenty-sixth day of the same month: he was again elected as such officer on the eighth day of June, A. D. 1872, and so acted until the end of the session. J suns G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. IX. - An Act to correct a clerical Error committed in the Enrolment tf an Act ap- Jam 30 gg7g_ proved March seven, eighteen hundred and seacnty, entitled"An Act to relieve certain Persons therein named jrontthe legal andpolztmal Dtsabthtzes imposed by the yburteenth VOL {VL 6i6_ Amendment ty" the Constitution of the United 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 concur- legal, Ste., ring therein), That the name S. J. Jobe, of Catoosa county, in the State 2;;:2§‘;;_;x"3,i J of Georgia, which appears in the act approved March seven, eighteen hun- Jobe, or Cam,,,,' dred and seventy, entitled "An Act to relieve certain persons therein Co-, Georgia named from the legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes," and which, in the bill that was passed by the said Senate and House of Representatives, was written T. J. Jobe, but which was in the enrolled bill erroneously written S. J. Jobe, be and the same is hereby Comcmm gf corrected and changed to T. J. Jobe. f<>Ym<¤‘ Mf- Sec. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. When act takes APPROVED, January 30, 1872. °*f°°*· CHAP. XVII. —— An Act granting a Pension to Sarah Evans. Feb. 7, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- Pension to rior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension Sarah Evans. roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Sarah Evans, mother of L. G. Evans, late sergeant company K, twenty- first United States infantry, and pay her a pension from the passage of this act, and to continue during life. Approved, February 7, 1872. CHAP. XXVI. — An Actfcrr the ReliefqfJuZia A. Smith. March 1, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the M£“§’S£;“Am Treasury is hereby directed to pay the sum of six hundred and forty Smith `