Chapter CXCIX. amendatory of an Act approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, for the Relief of Sherlock and Shirley
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Chap. CXCIX.— An Act amendatory of an Act approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, for the Relief of Sherlock and Shirley.June 22, 1860.1858, ch. 172. Vol. xi, p. 552. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby authorized to reexamine upon the evidence now inCertain fines and deductions to be remitted to Sherlock and Shirley. the Post-Office Department, the cases of fines and deductions charged against the pay of Sherlock and Shirley for mail service on route number five thousand one hundred and three, from Louisville to St.
Louis, between April second, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and November twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, under contract and agreement with the Department, and to remit so much of such fines and deductions, as in his judgment ought not to have been enforced if said service had all870THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 206, 207, 208, 209. 1860. been performed under written contract: *Provided,* That no case of fineProviso. heretofore considered and decided by any former Postmaster-General, upon the application of the contractors, shall be reviewed under the provisions of this act.
Approved, June 22, 1860.