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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 1 STAT. · July 16, 1798 · Chapter LXXXI

Chapter LXXXI. *for allowing an additional compensation to the doorkeepers and assistant doorkeepers of the Senate and House of Representatives, for their services during the present session of Congress.*July 16, 1798.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame

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Chap. LXXXI.— An Act *for allowing an additional compensation to the doorkeepers and assistant doorkeepers of the Senate and House of Representatives, for their services during the present session of Congress.*July 16, 1798.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be allowed to James Mathers, doorkeeper of the Senate, and to Thomas Claxton, doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, each, two hundred and fifty dollars; and to Cornelius Maxwell, assistant doorkeeper of the Senate, and to Thomas Dunn, the assistant doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, each, two hundred and twenty-five dollars, as an additional compensation for their services during the present session of Congress.
Approved, July 16, 1798.
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