592 FORTYFIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 17, 18, 29, 31. 1879. sixty-eight cents, as claimed by them, respectively, in the papers now on ille m the Treasury Department; and also con sider and examine the Matthew Smith. claim ofdllllatthew Smith late of the city off New Yorlil fdr one tlgggsand six un ed dollars for the repayment o taxes si1n' ar y asses an collected improperly. And if upon reopening and reeonsidering said claims, said Commissioner shall find said taxes, or any part of the same, to have been illegally or improperly assessed and collected from said claimants, it is hereby made his duty to audit and ascertain the amount of taxes so illegally and improperly collected from each of said claimants deducting, however, any legal unpaid taxes which claimants should have paid, and did not, if any there shall be, under section one hundred and three of the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to provide internal revenue to support the government, Payment. to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes."And the Secretary of the 'l‘reasury is hereby authorized and required to pay, out of any mopey in the iTreasu;y not cgherwise appropriated, the several amounts o taxes so oimd y said ommissioner of Internal Revenue as aforesaid, to have been illegally and improperly assessed and collected: to the persons and companies hereinbefore named, respectively. Approved, January 15, 1879. Jan. 17, 1879. CHAP. 18.-An act to remove the pgliticzl disabilities of James Chesnut of South ——·—·7··· &l‘0 Bi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 Representatives o the United _;,,,,,,,,, Chgsuuh States of America in Congress assembled, (liao-thirds of each House concur- Political dine- ring therein) That James Chesnut be, and is, hereby relieved of all politib¤h¤¢¤ Wm0V0d- cal disabilities imposed upon him by the third section of the fonuteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Approved, January 17, 1879. _r,m_ gy, 1g7g_ CHAP. 29.-An act for the relief of William M. KendalL Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United w, M, Keudm States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Payment. ury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be paid to William M. Kendall, of Plymouth, in the State of Indiana, who was commissioned gy the goveirnor offsaid State on the éirst day of September, eighteen undred an sixty- our, major in the eventy-third Regiment Indiana Volunteers vice Alfred B. Wade promoted the pa and allowances of a major from said date until the sixteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive, when he was mustered in as such major, he having been a prisoner of war in the interval, deducting therefrom whatever pay and allowances he received as a captain for the same period; and said pay- gut shall be made from any money appropriated for the pay of the my. Approved, January 27, 1879. Jn_ 28, 1g7g_ CHAP. 31.-An act to confirm a certain private land·claim in the Territory of New —·T-—— GXICO. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o R resentatives 0 the United Mesita Juana States of America in Congress assembled, `Thatpt-he private 1{ndclaim in Lopez nrivnts the Territory of New Mexico known as the Mesita Juana Lopez grant,
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' dred and eighty-two, examined, approved, and recommended for confirmation by the surveyor-general of New Mexico, November twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, designated as private land-claim number sixty-four, and duly surveyed by the United States, the field-
