Chapter CCXVII. to authorize the proper accounting Officers of the Treasury to settle and close the Account of Hinton Rowan Helper
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CHAP. CCXVII.— An Act to authorize the proper accounting Officers of the Treasury to settle and close the Account of Hinton Rowan Helper.July 7, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the proper accountingAccounts of Hinton Rowan Helper to be settled. officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and directed to settle and close the accounts of Hinton Rowan Helper, late consul of the United States at Buenos Ayres, as set forth and referred to in his memorial to Congress, under date of January seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy, upon the principles of justice and equity: *Provided,* That no money shallProvisos. be paid out of the treasury in effecting a final settlement: *And provided further,* That the whole amount of compensation to the said consul, for salary, for rent, and for clerk hire, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars per annum.
Approved, July 7, 1870.