Chapter CCXX. *for the Benefit of William G
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CHAP. CCXX.— An Act *for the Benefit of William G. Lee*. July 23, 1866. *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 William G. Lee. Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay William G. Lee, or his legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents, which said sum shall be in full payment of his claim against the United States, on account of corn purchased by him in the department of Kentucky, as the agent of the quartermaster’s department, under the agreement made by him with Captain John A.
Morris, in eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and which corn spoiled on his hands by reason of the government failing to furnish transportation Ibr the same. Approved, July 23, 1866.