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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · April 17, 1872 · Chapter CV

Chapter CV. for the Relief of James T

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CHAP. CV.— An Act for the Relief of James T. Johnston, of Alexandria, Virginia. April 17, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That to remedy an error of factPayment to James T. Johnston. in a certain bill (H. R. No. 1867) for the relief of James T. Johnston, which heretofore passed both houses at the present session of Congress, and was returned April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, by the President of the United States, without his approval, on account of such error, the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to James T.
Johnston, of Alexandria, Virginia, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of the proceeds of the sale for taxes due. to the United States, without interest, of lot number one hundred and sixty-two, on Prince street, Alexandria, Virginia, less all taxes, costs, 652 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 105–109. 1872. and legal charges; said sale having been made by the tax commissioners of the United States under the laws for the collection of direct taxes.
Approved, April 17, 1872.
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