Chapter CCL. for the Relief of Charles A
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CHAP. CCL.— An Act for the Relief of Charles A. Weidner. May 31, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment to Charles A. Weidner. be authorized and directed to pay to Charles A. Weidner, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand dollars, being the amount due him for columns, bases, girders, wrought-iron bars for cell-gratings, column and other patterns, and draining and plumbing work, made and done by him for the erection of the new jail in the District of Columbia, by virtue of and under a certain contract made between O.
H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior, and the said Charles A. Weidner, under authority of the act of Congress approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the joint resolution approved March1866, ch. 236. Vol. xiv. p. 231. Vol. xiv. p. 428. approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, concerning said jail, and for damages-suffered by the said Charles A. Weidner for non-compliance by the United States of its part of the contract: *Provided,* The sameProvisos. shall be accepted in full satisfaction for all claims whatsoever on account thereof: *And provided further,* That the said columns, bases, girders, bars, and patterns shall be the property of the United States.
Approved, May 31, 1872.