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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · March 3, 1853 · Chapter CXXIII

Chapter CXXIII. *for the Relief of Cornelius Covert, of Michigan.* March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General Cornelias Covert to be paid $396 per annum on a mail contract.be, and he is hereby directed

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Chap. CXXIII.— An Act *for the Relief of Cornelius Covert, of Michigan.* March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General Cornelias Covert to be paid $396 per annum on a mail contract.be, and he is hereby directed to pay to Cornelius Covert, of the State of Michigan, out of the revenues of the Post-Office Department, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and ninety-six dollars per annum, for the transportation of the mail on route number three thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, from Marshall to Centreville, in the State of Michigan, instead of two hundred and nineteen dollars, for and during the term of his contract, made and entered into in the year eighteen hundred and fifty.
Approved, March 3, 1853.
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