Chapter CXXIV. *for the Relief of William B
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Chap. CXXIV.— An Act *for the Relief of William B. Dodd and others.* July 1, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Payment to creditors of William B. Dodd, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay out of the appropriation to complete the road from Mendota to the Big Sioux River, contained in the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled1855, ch. 165.
Vol. x. p. 638. “An net making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and for other purposes,” into the hands of Horace Austin, of Saint Peter, Minnesota,Horace Austin appointed commissioner, &c. who is hereby appointed a commissioner to dispose of the same, the sum of three thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, the same having been estimated for in said appropriation, and being tor completing a part of said road, to be paid out by him as follows, to wit:
The said commissionerto make payment. shall give notice to all persons having claims against William B. Dodd for labor or materials furnished in the construction of said road, by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the neighborhood where said road is situated, for ninety days, and by posting written or printed notices in three public places in each county through which said road passes, to present and prove their claims within the ninety days aforesaid; and all such claims, so presented and proved within the time limited, he shall pay to the parties respectively, and the residue, after the liquidation of such claims, and the payment of the expenses of this commission, he shall pay to the said William B.
Dodd. Approved, July 1, 1862.