Chapter CXLVIII. for the Relief of the Heirs of Brigadier-General Richard B
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Chap. CXLVIII.— An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Brigadier-General Richard B. Mason. March 2, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Act of 1853, ch. 58, extended to heirs of Gen. R. B. Mason. That all the provisions of the act approved February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, entitled “An act for the relief of Brevet Brigadier-General Riley, and to enable him to settle his accounts with the United States,” be, and they are hereby, applied to the heirs of Brigadier-General Richard B.
Mason, in reference to all moneys raised and collected by him for contributions, penalties, internal assessments, duties, or other objects, in California, from June first, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and that the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department, in settling the accounts of the said Mason, be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to allow, as a credit, a commission of one and a half per cent, upon the moneys so raised, collected, and disbursed by the said Mason while he was governor of California during the time stated above.
Approved, March 2, 1855.