Chapter XLV. for the Relief of Richard W
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Chap. XLV.— An Act for the Relief of Richard W. Meade.May 9, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to$566.20 to be paid Richard W. Meade. pay to Richard W. Meade, late a lieutenant in the United States navy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty cents, being the amount of expenses incurred by him and his clerk for subsistence, while under orders of the Navy Department, and detained on shore at San Francisco, from the fifteenth of July to the thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, less the amount already received by them for commutation of their rations during the same period.
Approved, May 9, 1860.