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610 FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 499, 500, 501, 502. 1874_

 June 23 18·y4  CHAP. 499.--An act for t-he f?&§€£5!g 2££·& Q; g?6ttWitZ, late Lieutenant, Third

Whereas, A. H. Von Luettwitz, lem sm first: Lieutenant in the Third Record of Lum. United Status Cavalry, who was cashiered ii-om the United Sum A.11.v¤¤ Lumwiw service by sentence of a. General Court Martial on the eighth day of

  • 0 \><> ¤¤¥;_<>¤d¤d:° **° July, eighteen hundred a-ud seventy, having established his innocence

gl} c‘}£&'c{D';“ °“°° of the charges upon which hewas so cashiered the United States sew. ` ice: Therefore ; Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, Thats the Secretary of War be, and is hereby directed to amend the record of the said A. H. von Lnetbwitz so that he shell appear on the rolls and records of the Army for P . rank as if he had been continuously in service. Provided, That nothing '° ‘°°‘ shall be paid to him for the interval of time from the eighth day of July eighteen hundred und seventy until the passage of this ams. Approved, June 23, 1874. June 2;% 1874 CHAP. 500.-An act to relieve C. L. Stevenson, of Virginia, of his political disabilities Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Political (ummm_ States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of each House contics of 0. L. swven- curring therein} That all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth ¤·»¤- amendment of the Constitution of the United States by reason of any participation in thelnte rebellion be, and they are hereby, removed from O. L. Stevenson, of Virginia. Approved, June 23, 1874. June 23 1874 CHAP. 501.-An not for the relief of Thomas Hughes. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqzrcwntatives of the Umwd s·~u.1e¤»¤n¤ with States of America in Congress assembkd, That the amounting oilieers of 5¤_·· ·¥ v¤y¤¤¤¤¤*= Wthe proper Departments be, and they are hereby, authorized and re- U"“"““ H"g"°“· quired to settle and pay to late Lieutenant Thomas Hughes, regiments! quartermaster of the Twenty-eighth Iowa. Volunteer Lnthntry, who appears to have been mustered out of service nominally, on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, by general order number eighty-two current series, War Department, but who actually-performed service uuezier the order of Colonel Bonneville, commandaut at Benton Barracks, until the eighth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty=five, his full pay and perquisites for all the time be actually served, whether be was legally bound to perform such service or not. Approved, June 23, 1874. yum, 2;% 1874 CHAP. 502,-——An act: torjzhe relief of Captain James B. Thompson. Whereas James B. Thompson, labs of Company G. First Pennsylvania Pgymgnhbo James Rifles, was capbdred while in the line of his duty.; May thirtieth eight- B- Tlwmpspn of my een hundred and sixty-four, at the battle of Bethesda Church Virginia; °’° l“f“"t !‘°““°““°* and whereas on the sixth of June eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the am "P M"' said James B. Thompson was commissioned first lieutenant in company F. One hundred and ninetieth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and on the nineteen bh of September, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour another commission was issued to him as captain in same company and regiment, he being at the issuing of bot:h commissions absent as u prisoner of war in the hmxds of the enemy ; and whereas the said James B. Tiiompson endured the horrors and privntions of Andersonville for n perxod of