Chapter CXIV. *for the Relief of John W
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Chap. CXIV.— An Act *for the Relief of John W. Killy.* July 27, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to have the accounts John W. Kelly’s account for carrying the mail, to be settled at the contract price.of John W. Kelly, late a contractor on route number three thousand five hundred and forty, from Bainbridge, Georgia, to Apalachicola, Florida, audited and settled by the proper accounting officers, and to allow the said John W.
Kelly the contract price stipulated to be paid him, to wit: the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, from the first September, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, the day on which his contract would have expired, deducting therefrom the payments heretofore made the said John W. Kelly on account thereof; and the sum when so ascertained Received in full of all claim of damages for breach of contract.and paid shall be in full of all claims which the said John W.
Kelly may have for damages in consequence of the annulment of his said contract on the twenty-first day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, by the Post-Office Department. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the amount ascertained to be Appropriation.due the said John W. Kelly be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 27, 1854.