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Passed at the Second Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December, A. D. 1867; was adjourned on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, A. D. 1868, to meet at Washington, on Monday, the twenty-first day of September, A. D. 1868; met at Washington on said twenty-first day of September, and was, on that day, adjourned to meet at Washington on Friday the sixteenth day of October, A. D. 1868; met at Washington on said sixteenth day of October, and was, on that day, adjourned to meet at Washington on Tuesday the tenth day of November, A. D. 1868; met at Washington on said tenth day of November, and was then adjourned without day.

Andrew Johnson, President. Benjamin F. Wade, President of the Senate. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Right of way to Hudson, &c. R. R. Co. over government property at West Point, New York. That the consent of the United States is hereby given to the Hudson River West Shore Railroad Company to locate, construct, and operate its railroad on the Shore line, across the property belonging to the government at West Point, in the State of New York, upon such location and under such regulations as shall be approved by the Secretary of War.

Approved, December 14, 1867.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Samuel Chase Barney, Jr. may change his name. That Samuel Chase Barney, Jr., of the District of Columbia, be, and he is hereby, authorized to change his name to Samuel Chase De Krafft, and that this act shall take effect from December first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

Residents in the District of Columbia may have their names changed; Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person being a resident of the District of Columbia, being desirous to have his or her name changed, may file a petition in the supreme court of the said District of Columbia, setting forth therein the reasons therefor, and also the name desired to be assumed; notice ofmode of procedure. the filing of such petition containing the substance and prayer thereof shall be published for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper in general circulation published in said District, prior to the hearing of said petition. The said supreme court, or the justice holding the civil term thereof, on proof of such notice, and upon such showing as may be deemed satisfactory, may change the name of such applicant according to the prayer of such petition.

Approved, December 20, 1867.vol. xv. Pub.—3