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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Jan. 24, 1854 · Chapter V

Chapter V. *explanatory of an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of Benjamin S

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Chap. V.— An Act *explanatory of an Act entitled “An Act for the Relief of Benjamin S. Roberts.”* Jan. 24, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the words of the act Payment to Benjamin S. Roberts.entitled “An act for the relief of Benjamin S. Roberts,” approved the second day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, “the full amount of his pay,” be so construed as to embrace the pay for “emoluments and Construction of the act of March 2, 1853, ch. 89.allowances,” in conformity with the recommendation of Senate report two hundred and twenty-five,
(225)on which said act passed both Houses of Congress without amendment. Approved, January 24, 1854.
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