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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · June 7, 1872 · Chapter CCCXXIX

Chapter CCCXXIX. for the Relief of S

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CHAP. CCCXXIX.— An Act for the Relief of S. D. Houston, late Receiver of Public Moneys at Junction City, in the State of Kansas. June 7, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the sum of two hundredAllowance to be made to S. D Houston in settlement of his accounts. and twenty-three dollars and thirty-four cents be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse S.
D. Houston, late receiver of public moneys at the United States land office at Junction city, Kansas, for one month’s salary and commissions paid to John Williams, the register of that office, after the act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, known as the “civil tenure office1867, ch. 154. Vol. xiv. p. 430. law;” and that, in the settlement of the accounts of said Houston, the commissioner of the general land office be authorized to allow and pay the sum of two hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-four cents, as settlement in full of payment made to John Williams by S.
D. Houston. Approved, June 7, 1872.
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