Chapter CXX. for the Relief of Augustine Bacon
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CHAP. CXX.— An Act for the Relief of Augustine Bacon. April 25, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to Augustine Bacon. That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Augustine Bacon the sum of four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents, for services as route-agent on route number five thousand six hundred and seventy-four, performed under appointment by the Postmaster-General in eighteen hundred and sixty-five and eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which amount is due said Bacon, as appears by the books of the Post-office Department, and remains unpaid in consequence of the inability of said Bacon 1862, ch. 128, Vol. xii. p. 502.to take the test-oath, as prescribed by act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and the same shall be paid out of any moneys of the Post-office Department not otherwise appropriated.
J. G. BLAINE, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.* Received by the President April 13, 1872. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in winch it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]