Chapter CCXLVI. for the Relief of John Potts, Chief Clerk of the War Department
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CHAP. CCXLVI.— An Act for the Relief of John Potts, Chief Clerk of the War Department. May 31, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to John Potts for services as disbursing clerk. That the sum of two thousand dollars be paid to John Potts, chief clerk of the War Department, for services as disbursing clerk, at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum, from the fifteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, out of any Such services to be paid for hereafter, whether, &c.money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That it shall be lawful hereafter to pay for such services, at such rate, whether such clerk shall have been appointed from class four, or from a higher grade, any existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, May 31, 1872.