Chapter CLXXVI. *for the Relief of George Chorpenning, Jr.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General be and he hereby is required to adjust and settle the claim of said Chorpenning, Claim of Geo
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Chap. CLXXVI.— An Act *for the Relief of George Chorpenning, Jr.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General be and he hereby is required to adjust and settle the claim of said Chorpenning, Claim of Geo. Chorpenning, Jr., as surviving partner of Woodward & Chorpenning, for mail services to be adjusted and settled.as surviving partner of Woodward and Chorpenning, and in his own right, for carrying the mails by San Pedro, and for supplying the post-office in Carson’s Valley, and also for carrying part of the Independence mail by California; allowing a *pro rata* increase of compensation for the distance by San Pedro, for the service to Carson’s Valley, and for such part of the eastern mail as was carried by California, during all the time when said services were performed, as shown by the affidavits and proofs on file in the House of Representatives.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Postmaster-General be and he hereby is required to adjust and settle the claim of said Chorpenning, Also, another claim by the same for other mail services.as surviving partner of Woodward and Chorpenning, for damages on account of the annulment or suspension of Woodward and Chorpenning’s contract for carrying the United States mail from Sacramento, in California, to Salt Lake, in Utah Territory, as shown in the affidavits and proofs on file in the House of Representatives.
Sec. [3] 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the Postmaster-General be required to allow and pay to said Chorpenning, his full contract pay, Payments to said Chorpenning.during the suspension of Woodward and Chorpenning’s contract, from the fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to the first day of July of the same year; and, also, to allow and pay to said Chorpenning, thirty thousand dollars per annum from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, when he resumed service under the contract of Woodward and Chorpenning, down to the termination of his present contract, which said sum of thirty thousand dollars per annum shall be in lieu of the contract pay under both contracts.
And the sums in this act authorized to be allowed shall be paid out of the treasury. Approved, March 3, 1857.