age at the time of his death, to wit: George, born November twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four; Joseph, born March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven; and Mary A., born December eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, until they severally attain the age of sixteen years. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXX. An Act granting a Pension to Robert Watson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Robert Watson, late a private in company E, tenth regiment Tennessee infantry volunteers, and to pay him a pension, at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the nineteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to the sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and thereafter at the rate of fifteen dollars per month during his natural life. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXI. — An Act for the Relief of Mary Scott. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay to Mary Scott, widow of William Scott, late a private in company I, fifteenth regiment Massachusetts volunteers, a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the twenty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the date of the death of her said husband, until the tenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the date of the commencement of the pension heretofore allowed her, and the additional sum of two dollars per month for each child of said William Scott under sixteen years of age, to commence from the twenty-fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and to continue until said children shall severally attain the age of sixteen years. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXII. - An Act for the Relief of Seth Lea. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Seth Lea, of Knox County, in the State of Tennessee, and pay him a pension as a second lieutenant, commencing January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXIII. An Act to provide for the Distribution of the Reward offered by the President of the United States for the Capture of Jefferson Davis. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the reward of one hundred thousand dollars offered for the capture of Jefferson Davis by the President of the United States in his proclamation of May second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, shall be paid as follows: To James H. Wilson, of the State of Illinois, late major-general of volunteers, three thousand dollars; to Benjamin D. Pritchard, of the State of Michigan, late lieutenant-colonel of the fourth Michigan cavalry, three thousand dollars; to Henry Harnden, of the State of Wisconsin, late lieutenant-colonel of the first Wisconsin cavalry, three thousand dollars; to Joseph A. O. Yeoman, of the State of Iowa, late captain of the first Ohio cavalry, three thousand dollars; and to the following officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, in proportion to the monthly pay proper to which they were respectively entitled by law in the grades which they held at the time of said capture: Fourth Michu Officers and men of the fourth Michigan cavalry that were present at the capture of Jefferson Davis and party, on the morning of May ten, gan cavalry. eighteen hundred and sixty-five: Julian G. Dickinson, adjutant; Perry J. Davis, regimental quartermaster; Charles T. Hudson, captain company E; Silas J. Stauber, first lieutenant company G; Henry S. Bontell, first lieutenant company C (wounded); Alfred B. Purinton, second lieutenant company I; John Bennett, second lieutenant company B; Thomas Davis, commissary-sergeant company A; George A. Simmons, Thomas Riley, and Rezin Wright, sergeants company A; Darwin Dunning, Robert L. Reynolds, and Lyman J. Russell, corporals company A; William Balon, Daniel C. Blinn, Gilbert Coata, James Fullerton, Caspar Knable, Philo Morse, Charles W. Nichols, Henry Provost, and George Rinke, privates company A; A. E. Ford and A. A. Braley, sergeants company B; J. F. Sherbourne, C. F. Parker, William Crow, U. B. Tuttle, and B. B. Bennett, corporals company B; A. F. Sheppard, W. P. Steadman, Frank Crim, Augustus Armstrong, William V. Wood, John Nichols, J. J. Bontell, and L. H. Wilcox, privates company B; Abram Sebring, Reuben Palmerton, David J. Curry, and George M. Munger, corporals company C; James F. Bullard, David Dillon, Frank C. Leach, James H. Lynch, Stephen B. Munson, (killed,) John Ruppert, Ranselear Riggs, William J. Smith, and Harmon Stephens, privates company C; James H. Place, corporal company D; Burt Judson, Horace C. Jenney, William H. J. Martin, William Parker, Francis E. Thompson, Z. Í. Wilcox, John Brown, Jacob E. Munn, and Thomas Hunter, privates company D; George A. Bullard and David B. Green, sergeants company E; John Hines, (killed,) Charles W. Tyler, Dewitt C. Carr, and William H. Crittenden, corporals company E; Silas Bullard, Robert G. Tripp, Oscar E. Tefft, Henry Johnson, William F. Driesman, Peter Segarry, George F. Dalmage, and John G. Stephens, privates company E; John Correnton, sergeant company F; William F. True and Dewitt C. Cobb, corporals company F; B. Franklin Nichols, James Patterson, Ira Harrington, junior, John F. Grossman, Homer Hazleton, Henry Frickey, George Raab, Joseph Bellinger, Henry Bradock, Dennis Drescoe, and William Wright, privates company F; Jacob N. Frash, James F. O'Brien, John Cavanaugh, Jeremiah F. Craig, and William H. Palmateer, sergeants company G; George W. Van Sickle, John Ballou, George Myers, and Leander B. Shaw, corporals company G; Joshua Parks, Cary Reed, John A. Skinner, Joseph Odrin, David Cunningham, privates company G; and John H. Kelch, private company K; Joseph Hofmaster and Benjamin K. Colf, sergeants company L; Charles C. Marsh and William Oliver, corporals company L; Ed. Lane, J. W. Linsley, Perry Phelps, Benjamin F. Carpenter, Joseph Stewart, William Newkirk, George Noggle, Jesse J. Penfield, William Munn, Andrew Bee, and Daniel Edward, privates company L; Wesley D. Pond, first sergeant company M; Simeon Huff and Henry Shanahan, corporals company M; Emanuel Beazan, Andrew Anderson, Robert Arnold, and John Vantyle, privates company M; Daniel Graham, private company G; Elias F. Pierce [and] Lester P. Bates, sergeant[] company I; Jerome B. Heath and Preston W. Brown, corporals company I; Luke M. Thayer, Martin L. Brown, George W. Bodwell, William Dill, George W. Dutcher, Charles Flugger, Daniel E. Krumm, Charles W. Middaugh, Peter McKennedy, Hiram H. McCullough, and Marwin R. Pettit, privates company I; Ansel VOL. XV. PRIV. - 26 First Wilconsin cavalry. Misnomers may be corrected of those deceased, &c. Heirs, &c. to receive their share. Adams, sergeant company K; Alonzo Moe, corporal company K; James Officers and enlisted men of the first Wisconsin cavalry engaged in the pursuit and present at the time of the capture of Jefferson Davis: Orson P. Clinton, second lieutenant company B; Walter O. Hargraves, sergeant-major; James Aplin, private company K, orderly for Colonel Harnden; Austin M. Howe, sergeant company A; David N. Bell, William Billsbeck, Martin M. Coleman, William Deyer, John Huntermer, Gottleib J. Klineline, Sidney Leonard, James McStillson, George W. Sillsbee, Christopher Stinebreck, Herbert Schelter, privates company A; Luther L. Blair, Melvin T. Olin, and John Clark, sergeants company B; Thomas B. Culbertson, James McCrary, and Ezra H. Stewart, corporals company B; Albert L. Beardsley, Thomas Coleman, Rawson P. Franklin, Sylvester Fairbanks, William Gill, William Grimes, Lewis Jacobson, Honore Leverner, William Matshie, Ira Miller, John Nolan, John Norton, Warren P. Otterson, Stephen Pougnette, William A. Spangler, Frederick Steinfield, Joseph Smith, George Wright, and John Wagner, privates company B; George D. Hussey and J. M. Wheeler, sergeants company D; Gustavus W. Sykes, (wounded,) L. Philip Pond, Joseph Myers, and George La Borde, corporals company D; Nelson Apley, (wounded,) P. F. Anderson, Donald Brandor, F. Bublitz, J. S. Burton, Lawrence Bird, Joseph Beguen, A. J. Craig, Thomas Day, Thomas Dickerson, Jerrod Fields, James Foley, Jacob Gosh, D. H. Goodrich, Lewis Harting, U. M. Hephner, C. Helgerson, Henry Hamilton, A. E. Johnson, John Ludwick, M. F. Nickerson, P. W. O. Herron, J. A. L. Pooch, Alexander Pingilly, Arne Renom, Jerome Roe, Herman Stone, John Spear, Henry Sidenburg, J. H. Warren, C. W. Seely, (wounded,) privates company D. Detachment accompanying Captain Joseph A. O. Yeoman, in his pursuit and discovery of Jefferson Davis: George P. Barnes, junior, sergeant company A, first Ohio Cavalry; John H. McElwaine, quartermaster-sergeant company A, first Ohio cavalry; Samuel Robertson and Ripley M. Woln, corporals company A, first Ohio cavalry; Henry T. Ressler, Samuel J. Rice, Spencer C. Phares, and George W. Blair, privates company A, first Ohio cavalry; John Camm, sergeant company C, first Ohio cavalry; William Hampden, private company C, first Ohio cavalry; John W. Newlove, commissary-sergeant company D, first Ohio cavalry; William Powers, private company D, first Ohio cavalry; Bushrod W. Click, private company F, first Ohio cavalry; Thomas R. Kennard and William Place, privates company I, first Ohio cavalry; John Young, private company K, first Ohio cavalry; Lee Wood, private company L, seventh Ohio cavalry; John Gatts, corporal company E, seventh Ohio cavalry; Thomas H. Wright, private company E, fifth Iowa cavalry; and to five additional men, privates in the said first regiment of Ohio cavalry, one man of the seventh regiment of Ohio cavalry, and two men of the fifth regiment of Iowa cavalry, whose names and places of residence are unknown, but who shall satisfy the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department of their services and identity, by sufficient evidence, before being paid under this act. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to receive evidence to correct misnomers and the omission, if any, of the names of those actually present rendering service with either of the said detachments, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, and to certify the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall cause the same to be audited and paid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That to the heirs-at-law and legal representatives of such soldiers above named as were killed in action at the capture of Jefferson Davis, or have since deceased, the share, proportion, or claim of such killed or deceased soldier shall be paid. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred Appropriation. thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to carry this act into effect. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXIV. - An Act to relieve from legal and political Disabilities certain July 27, 1868. Persons engaged in the late Rebellion. See Vol. xvi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all legal and political disLegal and political disabdiabilities imposed by the United States upon Simeon Corley, a citizen of ties of certain South Carolina, John Milledge, of Augusta, Georgia, Michael Hahn, of persons reNew Orleans, Louisiana, James Bussey, of Morehouse parish, Louisiana, moved. Wm. C. Carr, and John L. Barrett, of Union parish, Louisiana, Richard ch. 6. H. Cuney, of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Robert Ray, of New Orleans, Private Louisiana, George W. Christy, of New Orleans, Louisiana, Andrew T. Laws, p. 2. Stone, of Rocky Comfort, Arkansas, Riley B. Archer, of Arkansas, James H. Hicks, of Arkansas, Rufus L. Archer, of Arkansas, Z. C. Ross, of Arkansas, W. F. Richardson, of Union County, Arkansas, and P. M. B. Young, of Georgia, [be, and the same are hereby, removed.] APPROVED, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXV. An Act granting a Pension to Lucinda J. Letcher. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pen-Letcher sion roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Lucinda J. Letcher, widow of Joseph Letcher, late a private in company G, ninth Michigan volunteers, commencing October twentyfirst, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXVI. ―― July 27, 1868. Pension to Lucinda J An Act for the Relief of Eliza Mascher, Widow of John F. July 27, 1868. Eliza Mascher Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Eliza Mascher, administratrix of John F. Mascher, deceased, who obtained a patent No. 9611 may apply for for an improvement in daguerreotype cases, dated the eighth of March, patent. eighteen hundred and fifty-three, with additional improvement, No. 134, annexed to said original patent, dated nineteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for fourteen years, which expired on the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be authorized to apply to the commissioner of patents for the extension of said patent for seven years, under the regulations now in force for the extension of patents, as if she had made application previous to its expiration, as required by law; and the commissioner of patents is directed to investigate and decide the application for extension on the same evidence and in the same manner as other applications for extension are decided: Provided, That the application for extension be made within thirty days after approval of this act, and the decision of the commissioner be rendered within ninety days from the filing of said application in the patent office: And provided further, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to hold responsible in damages any person who may have manufactured or used the daguerreotype cases with the improvement and addition aforesaid, or used cases containing the improvement and addition aforesaid, between the expiration of the patent and the approval of this act: And provided Proviso. also, That the commissioner shall be satisfied before granting such extension that it will enure entirely to the benefit of the said Eliza Mascher. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. Proviso. Proviso. July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXVII. An Act directing the Commissioner of Pensions to proceed to hear Evidence and determine the Right of W. H. Cox, deceased, late a Sergeant in Company F, Second Regiment Pennsylvania Artillery, to a Pension in same Manner as if he were still living, he having died of Disease contracted whilst a Prisoner of War at Andersonville, Georgia, and, if found to be entitled to a Pension, then same, from Time of his Death, to be paid over to his Father, Charles D. Cox. Preamble. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Right of W. States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of H. Cox to a pen- pensions be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to proceed and sion to be ex ainined. receive proof of the right of said W. H. Cox to a pension in same man- Pension to be paid to Charles D. Cox. July 27, 1868. Pension to Orlena Walters. WHEREAS, W. H. Cox, a hale, hearty young man of about twenty years of age, residing with his father, Charles D. Cox, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and being a part of his family, on the sixteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, was enrolled as a sergeant in company F, second regiment Pennsylvania artillery, to serve three years or during the war; that he was regularly mustered in as such, and at the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, on or about the second of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, was taken prisoner by the rebels and sent to Andersonville, Georgia, and there confined as a prisoner of war for the period of ten months, and from exposure and lack of food became very much debilitated, and after being released he was on the eighth of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by virtue of a telegram dated adjutant-general's office, May twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, honorably discharged from the United States service; and whereas the said W. H. Cox, after reaching his father's residence, made application for a pension under existing laws, in consequence of disease contracted in line of duty, and before the case was finally disposed of, to wit, July ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, he died of disease contracted as aforesaid, and the commissioner then declined to proceed farther in the case, being of opinion that the death of the young man suspended farther proceedings; and whereas Charles D. Cox, father of said deceased soldier, is desirous of obtaining the pension justly due his said son from date of his discharge till death, to be applied to the purchase of a suitable monument to be placed at his grave: Therefore, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXVIII. — An Act granting a Pension to Orlena Walters. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Orlena Walters, widow of Lieutenant Elisha Walters, late of the seventh provisional regiment of enrolled Missouri militia, commencing October fourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. CHAP. CCLXXXIX. — An Act granting a Pension to Elizabeth Richardson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Elizabeth Rich- Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the Pension to ardson. pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Elizabeth Richardson, widow of William Richardson, late a private in company I, fifth Kentucky cavalry, commencing February twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. APPROVED, July 27, 1868. |
