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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 15 STAT. · July 13, 1868 · Chapter CXLIV

Chapter CXLIV. for the Relief of certain Government Contractors

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CHAP. CXLIV.— An Act for the Relief of certain Government Contractors.July 13, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of thePayments to Secor & Co.; Perine, Secor, & Co.;Harrison Loring;Atlantic Iron Works. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Secor and Company, and Perine, Secor, and Company, the sum of one hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and one cent; to Harrison Loring, thirty-eight thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars; to the Atlantic Iron Works, of Boston, Massachusetts, four thousand380FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 144, 145, 146, 147. 1868. eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents; to AquillaPayments to Aquilla Adams;M. F. Merritt;Tomlinson, Harteepee & Co.; Adams, the sum of four thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents; to M. F. Merritt, the sum of four thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents; to Tomlinson, Harteepee, and Company, fifteen thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars; to Harlan and Hollingsworth, the sum of thirty-eight thousand five hundredHarlan & Hollingsworth;Poole & Hunt. and thirteen dollars, and to Poole and Hunt, the sum of three thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-one cents, being the amount found to be due to each of the parties herein respectively named by the Secretary of the Navy under an act of Congress entitled “An act for the1867, ch. 147.Vol. xiv. p. 424. relief of certain contractors for the construction of vessels of war and steam machinery,” approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which shall be in full discharge of all claims against the United States on account of the vessels upon which the board made the allowance, as per their report, under the act of March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Approved, July 13, 1868.
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