Chapter IX. for the Relief of James S
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Chap. IX.— An Act for the Relief of James S. Graham and Walter H. Finnall. Dec. 21, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Postmaster-General $3,000 to be paid to James S. Graham mid Waiter H. Finnall, for damages for abandonment of a post-office contract.be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to James S. Graham and Walter H. Finnall the sum of three thousand dollars, as compensation in full for the losses sustained by said Graham and Finnall, by reason of the abandonment, by the Postmaster-General, of two contracts made by that officer with them, for the transportation of the mail from Washington to Fredericksburg, and from Fredericksburg to Richmond, which contracts bear date the third day of December, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.
Approved, December 21, 1854.