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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · June 5, 1858 · Chapter XCVI

Chapter XCVI. *for the Relief of Lewis W

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Chap. XCVI.— An Act *for the Relief of Lewis W. Broadwell.* June 5, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Lewis W. Broadwell to be paid $12,938 in full for carrying the mail in steamers.Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Lewis W. Broadwell, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twelve thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars, it being in full compensation for transporting the United Slates mails, in steamboats, from Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Grand Lake, Arkansas, from the fourth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, to the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum.
Approved, June 5, 1858.
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