Chapter LXI. to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent Members of Congress and Officers of the Government of the United States from taking Considerations for procuring Contracts, Office, or Place from the United States, and for other Purposes.”Feb. 25, 1863.1862, ch. 180
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Chap. LXI.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent Members of Congress and Officers of the Government of the United States from taking Considerations for procuring Contracts, Office, or Place from the United States, and for other Purposes.”Feb. 25, 1863.1862, ch. 180.Ante, p. 577. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the provisions of said actContracts with government. shall be so construed as to embrace any agent of the Government of the United States. Approved, February 25, 1863.