360 FOBTY-THIRD CON GBESS. SESSJI. OH.205,206, 207,208, 1875, Springer deceased, James G. Freeman, Joseph Bontura, Anthony R. Frazer, Caroline Heater, and Gilbert Vanderwerken be and they are hereby referred to the Commissioners of Claims for reexamination and report and the said Commissioners of Claims are hereby authorized to re-open, examine and consider the said cases and to make report thereon to Congress: and it shall hereafter be the duty of the Commissioners of Claims who concur in making any report to sign the same, and if either of said Commissioners dissents from the Report such dissent with the reasons therefor shall also accompany it. ‘ ` Approved. March 3, 1875. March 3, 1875. CHAP. 206.-An act for the relief of George W. Dawson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representives of the United P ay m e n t to States of Americain Oongrsss assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Gwrge W. Dew- ury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, outof any money in the Treas- °°“· ury not otherwise appropriated, to George W. Dawson late collector of the fifth internal-revenue district in the State of Maryland, the sum of seventy-two dollars, the amount taken from his deputy collector, Frederick A. Dawson, in the month of July, eighteen hundred and sixty- four, by confederate troops under command of General Early. Approved, March 3, 1875. March 3, 1875. CHAP. 207.-An act to authorize the Commissioner of Patents to sign the certincate —-—-——···· of extension of letters patent No. 28,470, granted to Frederick T. Grant, May twenty- ninth eighteen hundred and sixty, upon a sliver machine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Commissioner of States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of $**0*2* ‘l:;h;"“§f Patents be, and hereby is, authorized to examine the application for an c:,,§,{,f;~F,m§,€cg extension of the patent granted to Frederick T..Grant, May twenty- 1·,Gm¤;, ·ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty, number twenty-eight thousand four hundred and eventy, and if in his judgment the said application should be allowed, to sign the certificate of extension the same as if the time limited in the sixty-third section of the act of July eighth, eighteen hun-
“°!’ in ,°“° dred and seventy had not expired: Provided, That the Commissioner shall
w‘ m"'" y°”y°' act upon the case within ninety days: And proomd, That no person _ __ shall be held liable for the infringement of said patent if extended for iuwngéggfgrfgi making or using said invention since the expiration of the original, to dm of 8m,,,_ patent and prior to the date of the extension. sion- Approved, March 3, 1875. M,,,,,], 3, 1g7g_ CHAP. 208.-An act to remove the political disabilities ofThomasM. Jones, of Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Diggybilitiqg of States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each House concur- Thomas M. Jones ing therein j That all political disabilities imposed upon Thomas M. ¥P'“°"°d· . Jones, of Virginia, by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution oi the United States, by reason of his participation in the rebellion, are hereby removed. . Approved, March 3, 1875. Much 3, .18-75 CHAP. 209.-An act tbr the relief of William M. Kimball. . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _Payment to Wil- States of America in Congress Msernbled, That the Secretary of War hm M·K¤¤=*>·~**· be directed to cause to ne pam to William M. Kimball the run pty and emoluments of a lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of the
