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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · July 20, 1854 · Chapter C

Chapter C. *for the Relief of Thomas K

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Chap. C.— An Act *for the Relief of Thomas K. Glenn.* July 20, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General T. K. Glenn’s account for carrying the mail to be settled and paid so as to correct a mistake in his proposals.be, and hereby is, authorized to cause the account of Thomas K. Glenn, for carrying the mail from Raleigh to Roxboro, in North Carolina, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, during the time he has been engaged, and to the termination of his contract, to be settled and paid in such manner as to correct an alleged mistake made in his proposals:
Proviso.*Provided,* The Postmaster-General be satisfied of the existence of such mistake, and that the difference to be paid to the said Thomas K. Glenn, with what he has already received, shall not exceed the amount Amount to be paid.of the next lowest bid, or the rate of two hundred and seventy-five dollars per annum for the term of the contract, or the actual performance of the service. Approved, July 20, 1854.
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