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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · March 3, 1857 · Chapter CXXIII

Chapter CXXIII. *for the Relief of Commander John L

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Chap. CXXIII.— An Act *for the Relief of Commander John L. Saunders.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Payment to John L. Saunders.Treasury be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Commander John L. Saunders, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, ten dollars a day from ninth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-five, to sixteenth of September, eighteen hundred forty-five, both inclusive, in full compensation for entertaining on board the ship St.
Mary’s, Colonel John C. Eldridge, whilst a bearer of des patches from Pensacola to Aransas, in September, eighteen hundred and forty-five. Approved, March 3, 1857.
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