nd port of Bay City, on the twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight, said tax having been paid by said Hall at Chicago, on the sixteenth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Approved, July 20, 1868. (PRIVATE RESOLUTION-No. 17.] A RESOLUTION for the restoration of Commander Aaron K. Hughes, United States navy, to the active list from the retired list. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be authorized to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint Commander Aaron K. Hughes to the active list of the navy, with the rank to which he may be entitled therein. Approved, July 23, 1868. [Private RESOLUTION—No. 18.] JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of Peter M. Carmichael, surveyor of the port of Albany. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized, in auditing and adjusting the accounts of Peter M. Carmichael, surveyor of the port of Albany, to admit and allow the charge of one thousand and eight dollars, the same having been paid by him to John Hastings, deputy surveyor and inspector of said port. Approved, July 23, 1868. (PRIVATE RESOLUTION—No. 19. A RESOLUTION to construe an act entitled “ An act to authorize the accounting officers of the treasury to settle the accounts of Andrew S. Core.” Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entitled “ An act to authorize the accounting officers of the treasury to settle the accounts of Andrew S. Core,” shall be so construed as to authorize and direct the said accounting officers to settle and close the said accounts by crediting the said Core with the amount of such uncollectable, or unaccounted for, tax lists or bills placed in his hands for collection as they may be satisfied have been lost or destroyed by reason of rebel raids, and have not been collected by him. Approved, July 27, 1868. [PRIVATE RESOLUTION_No. 20.] A RESOLUTION for the relief of Jonathan S. Turner. Whereas Jonathan S. Turner, of Fair Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, did obtain letters patent of the United States of America, for improvement in alarm clocks, dated July thirteen, eighteen hundred and $ fifty-two; and whereas the said Jonathan S. Turner did, on or about the twentyseventh day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, file in the Patent Office his petition or application for an extension of the term, in accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth section of the patent act, approved July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and complied with all the requirements of the rules and laws applicable thereto, except the inadvertent omission of one revenue stamp of the value of five cents, for which omission only the Acting Commissioner of Patents did, on the twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixtysix, refuse to extend the said patent: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Patents be, and he is hereby, authorized to extend the term of the said patent to the said Jonathan S. Turner, for the term of seven years from and after the thirteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which said patent, so extended, shall have the same validity, force, and effect, as though the extension had been allowed and certified by the said Commissioner of Patents, in accordance with the eighteenth section of the patent act, approved July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, before the expiration of the original term named in said patent. Approved, July 27, 1868. [PRIVATE RESOLUTION-No. 21.] JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of Martha E. King. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unite./ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Paymaster General of the United States army be, and is hereby, directed to pay to Martha E. King, widow of Cliuton King, late of the county of Carroll and State of Tennessee, deceased, a sum equal to the pay of a first lieutenant of cavalry from the fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-foar; and that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of the said Martha E. King on the pension roll, and she shall be entitled to the pension provided by law for the widow of a first lieutenant of cavalry who died in the military service of the United States of disease contracted while in such service and in the line of duty, since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved, July 27, 1868. INDEX TO THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTIETH CONGRESS. A. Pago. ...OP 11 2 40 23 11 26 Abandoned property, proceeds of sales of, to be paid into the treasury. Appropriations for the Wagon road to Cornwall Landing authorized. 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