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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · May 13, 1862 · Chapter LXVIII

Chapter LXVIII. for the Relief of John Skirving

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Chap. LXVIII.— An Act for the Relief of John Skirving.May 13, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of thePayment to John Skirving for drawings, &c. for public buildings in Washington. Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed, out of any money in the treas-904THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 68, 74, 87, 88. 1862.ury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to John Skirving the sum of eleven hundred and forty-two dollars, in full for his services in making designs, drawings, working drawings, and measurements, in and about the public buildings in the city of Washington, and other expenses attending the same, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, from the year eighteen hundred and forty-two to the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, inclusive.
Approved, May 13, 1862.
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