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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · May 10, 1872 · Chapter CLIV

Chapter CLIV. directing the proper Officers in the Treasury Department to credit John Seys, of Ohio, the Sum therein mentioned

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CHAP. CLIV.— An Act directing the proper Officers in the Treasury Department to credit John Seys, of Ohio, the Sum therein mentioned. May 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Credit to be allowed John Seys. That the proper accounting officers in the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and allow to John Seys, of Ohio, formerly minister resident and consul-general of the United States at Liberia, in the final adjustment and settlement of his accounts as such minister, the sum of eleven hundred FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 155, 166–168, 190. 1872. 661 and sixty-one dollars and sixty-four cents, it being the amount of his salary as minister for the period of one hundred and six days, occupied by him in coming to the United States and returning to Liberia, in eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Approved, May 10, 1872.
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