Chapter XXVII. *for the Relief of William H
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Chap. XXVII.— An Act *for the Relief of William H. Chase.* August 23, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the accounting officers of Capt. Wm. H. Chase to be allowed $812.50, and $130 in his accounts.the treasury be directed to pass to the credit of William H. Chase, a major in the army, in the settlement of his accounts, the sum of eight hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, being for the amount heretofore disallowed him in lieu of quarters and fuel in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and eighteen hundred and thirty-nine; and the further sum of one hundred and thirty dollars for money paid by him for the hire of a vessel to convey him, in the course of his duty, from Key West to Havana, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-five, amounting in all to the sum of nine hundred and forty-two [dollars] and fifty cents.
Approved, August 23, 1856. 34 3 1856 1857 485 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the third session, which was begun and holden at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the second day of December,* 1856, *and ended Tuesday the third day of March,* 1857. Franklin Pierce, President. Jesse D. Bright President of the Senate, *pro tempore*. till January 5, 1857, and James M. Mason from that time till the close of the Session.
Nathaniel P. Banks, Jun., Speaker of the House of Representatives.