Chapter XXIV. making a Reappropriation from the Surplus Fund for the Relief of Lieutenant John Guest, United States Navy, and others
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Chap. XXIV.— An Act making a Reappropriation from the Surplus Fund for the Relief of Lieutenant John Guest, United States Navy, and others. Jan. 26, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Balance of appropriations for coast survey carried to surplus fund, reappropriated for John Guest and others.That the sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and forty-nine cents, being the balance remaining of the appropriations made by Congress in the years eighteen hundred and forty, and eighteen hundred and forty-one, for the survey of the coast from Apalachicola bay to the mouth of the Mississippi River, for the ascertainment of the practicability of establishing a navy yard and naval station which should best subserve the protection of the commerce of the Gulf of Mexico, which balance has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, be and the same is hereby reappropriated, for the payment of the sum due Lieutenant John Guest, United States Navy, (six hundred and seventeen dollars,) for services rendered in such survey, and for other Lawful claims of officers who were employed in that survey.
Approved, January 26, 1857.