Chapter XVIII. for the Relief of Harvey D
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CHAP. XVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Harvey D. Scott, of Indiana.Jan. 11, 1871. Whereas there is due from the government of the United States toPreamble. Harvey D. Scott the sum of four hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty cents, for his per diem and mileage as commissioner for the examination of the first ten miles of the Minnesota Valley railroad, in eighteen678FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 18, 19, 20, 22. 1871. hundred and sixty-five, under the appointment of the Secretary of the Interior; and whereas, by the first section of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other purposes,” approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy,1870, ch. 292.*Ante*, p. 307. the sum of money aforesaid was appropriated to pay said per diem and mileage, but by mistake in describing said examination of said railroad as having taken place in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six [it could not lawfully be paid:] Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That so much of the act aboveAmendment of former act in favor of Harvey D.
Scott. recited as describes the said examination of the first ten miles of the said Minnesota Valley railroad by the said Harvey D. Scott as having been made in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to refer to said examination so made by him in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the appropriation therein made shall be construed to apply to said last-named examination. Approved, January 11, 1871.