Chapter L. *for the Relief of Guion and McLaughlin.* Feb. 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 E
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Chap. L.— An Act *for the Relief of Guion and McLaughlin.* Feb. 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 E. P. Guion and Benjamin McLaughlin to be paid $1,640.be, and he is hereby directed to pay to E. P. Guion and Benjamin McLaughlin the sum of one thousand six hundred and forty dollars, from the appropriation for mail transportation, being the amount due them, under the equitable terms of their contract with the Postmaster-General, for two months’ extra pay, upon the discontinuance of the transportation of the Southern Mail, on route two thousand eight hundred and two, from Raleigh to Fayetteville; on route two thousand eight hundred and eleven, from Fayetteville to Cheraw; and on route three thousand one hundred and one, from Cheraw to Columbia, South Carolina; on the sixth of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five; the Postmaster-General having only paid the allowance for two months’ extra service upon the amount dispensed with, when it should have been upon the whole amount of the contract.
Approved, February 3, 1853.