Chapter CV. *for the Relief of L
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Chap. CV.— An Act *for the Relief of L. M. Goldsborough and Others.* March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted 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 and required to allow and pay, out of any money in the Treasury not Payment to L. M. Goldsborough, G. J. Van Brunt, and S. F. Blunt.otherwise appropriated, to L. M. Goldsborough, G. J.
Van Brunt and S. F. Blunt, for expenses incurred by them, respectively, while serving upon a joint commission of army and navy officers in California and Oregon, during the years eighteen hundred and forty-nine and eighteen hundred and fifty, double the pay of a commander in the navy, in sea service, during the exact time of their employment on said coasts as aforesaid, to wit: from the first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, deducting therefrom the regular pay accruing to said officers during that period.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That each of the three army officers, J. L. Payment to J. L. Smith, C. A. Ogden, and D. Leadbetter.Smith, C. A. Ogden, and D. Leadbetter, of the corps of Engineers, who were associated with the said navy officers in the joint duty aforesaid, be allowed and paid, as aforesaid, commutation of fuel and quarters from the first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, equal in amount to the allowance authorized to a major of the army on duty at San Francisco during that time; deducting therefrom the commutation to which they would have been entitled respectively, at their posts in the Atlantic States.
Approved, March 3, 1853.