Chapter CXXI. authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund certain Moneys to James O
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CHAP. CXXI.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to refund certain Moneys to James O. P. Burnside. Feb. 7, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment to James O. P. Burnside. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, empowered and directed, out of any money not otherwise appropriated by law, to pay to James O. P. Burnside the sum of five thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars, being the one-fourth part of the proceeds of two lots of cotton sold in New York, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, by H.
A. Risley, supervising special agent of the United States treasury; said cotton having been purchased by the said James 0. P. Burnside, in the State of North Carolina, for FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 123–125, 127. 1873. 727 delivery under a contract made in December, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, between the said Burnside and the said Risley, supervising special agent of the United States treasury, in pursuance of an act of Congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act1864, ch. 225.
Vol. xiii. p. 375. in addition to the several acts concerning commercial intercourse between loyal and insurrectionary States, and to provide for the collection of captured and abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in States declared in insurrection,” the said one-fourth of the proceeds of the sales of said cotton having been withheld by the said H. A. Risley, and by him paid into the treasury of the United States. Approved, February 7, 1873.