Chapter XXV. for the Relief of John H
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Chap. XXV.— An Act for the Relief of John H. Shepherd and Walter K. Caldwell, of Missouri.March 8, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General bePayments to be made John H. Shepherd and Walter K. Caldwell for carrying the mails. instructed to allow and pay to the said Shepherd and Caldwell, all sums of money remaining due and unpaid and heretofore withheld by the post-office department for carrying the mails during the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five, on routes numbered eight thousand eight hundred and eighteen and eight thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the State of Missouri; said payments to be made for the time during which service was actually performed on said routes, at the rate of twenty-one hundred dollars per year on route number eight thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and at the rate of fourteen hundred and sixty dollars on route number eight thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, without making any deduction on account of the refusal of said contractors to enter into new contracts for performing extra service, or on account of reletting the same.
And the Postmaster General is further instructed to pay to said contractors any sums of money due them for carrying the mails on routes numbered eight thousand eight hundred and nineteen and eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in said State, during the years aforesaid, and withheld by the post-office department, on account of the reletting of the two routes first named. Approved, March 8, 1864.