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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Aug. 1, 1854 · Chapter CLXXXI

Chapter CLXXXI. *for the Relief of Captain Charles G

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Chap. CLXXXI.— An Act *for the Relief of Captain Charles G. Merchant.* Aug. 1, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting The account of C. G. Merchant to be settled so as to relieve him of the effect of the loss of his return for the second quarter of 1849. Proviso.officers of the Government be, and are hereby, directed to settle the accounts of Charles G. Merchant, Brevet Captain of the United States Army, for the second quarter of eighteen hundred and forty-nine, on just and equitable principles, without reference to the usual forms, so as to relieve the said Charles G.
Merchant of the effect of the loss of his quarterly returns for said quarter: *Provided,* That the amount to be allowed to the said Charles G. Merchant, in such settlement, shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-nine cents. Approved, August 1, 1854.
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