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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · April 28, 1870 · Chapter LXV

Chapter LXV. to relieve certain Persons therein named from the legal and political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes

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CHAP. LXV.— An Act to relieve certain Persons therein named from the legal and political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes.April 28, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all legal and political disabilitiesLegal, &c. disabilities removed from certain persons.Vol. xv. p. 709. imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States by reason of participation in the late rebellion be, and they are hereby, removed from the following persons, viz.:
Charles I. Stockbridge, Washington county, Texas ; Charles E. Bolles, Harrison county, Texas; Hugh C. McIntyre, Washington county, Texas; George T. Haswell, Robertson county, Texas ; Camillus Jones, Colorad*a* county, Texas; A. I. Vaughn, of Colorad*a* county, Texas; James G. Seawell, Galveston, Texas; John S. Jones, Galveston county, Texas; L. W. Cooper, Houston county, Texas ; John G. Scott, Anderson county, Texas; H. B. Simonds, of Hunt county, Texas ; Richard Jordan, of Texas, formerly of Maine.
Approved, April 28, 1870.
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