Chapter CLXIV. *to pay loyal Citizens in the States lately in Rebellion for Services in taking the United States Census of eighteen hundred and sixty*
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CHAP. CLXIV.— An Act *to pay loyal Citizens in the States lately in Rebellion for Services in taking the United States Census of eighteen hundred and sixty*. June 24, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Claims of loyal citizens in the States lately in rebellion for services in taking the census of 1860, to be paid. That the claims of loyal citizens in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, for services rendered as United States marshals and their assistants in taking the eighth census in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, may be paid out of any unexpended balance of any moneys hitherto appropriated for the payment of United States marshals and their assistants for servicesSee *Post*, p. 314. rendered in taking the eighth census in the year eighteen hundred and sixty: *Provided*, That no money shall be paid on account of any suchProvisos. claim until proof, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, of the loyalty to the United States throughout the late rebellion of the person by whom said service is alleged to have been performed, shall have been furnished, among which proofs shall be the oath of the person alleged to have performed the said service, if such person be living: *Provided*, That satisfactory evidence shall be submitted to the proper accounting officers that the claimants under this act have never received compensation for their services from any source whatever.
Approved, June 24, 1870.