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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Jan. 3, 1855 · Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIII. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish an Auxiliary Watch for the Protection of Public and Private Property in the City of Washington,” approved August twenty-three, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.* Jan. 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

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Chap. XXIII.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish an Auxiliary Watch for the Protection of Public and Private Property in the City of Washington,” approved August twenty-three, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.* Jan. 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That each of the said auxiliary Pay of the auxiliary watch in Washington.watch shall receive an annual compensation of six hundred dollars, commencing with the present fiscal year, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the above-recited Repeal of acts of 1842, ch. 184, and 1853, ch. 97, respecting such pay.act, and of the act approved March three, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, fixing the compensation of the said auxiliary watch, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, January 3, 1855.
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