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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · Jan. 13, 1857 · Chapter IX

Chapter IX. *for the Relief of J

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Chap. IX.— An Act *for the Relief of J. Randolph Clay.* Jan. 13, 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 $1,312.50 to be paid to J. Randolph Clay.Treasury be and he is hereby directed ted to pay to J. Randolph Clay, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the government of Peru, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, it being the difference between the salary allowed him as THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 10, 11, 14, 15, 16. 1857. 487charge d’affaires from the sixteenth of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, (the date of his appointment as minister,) to the thirtieth of June following, after which he was allowed a compensation according to his rank. Approved, January 13, 1857.
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