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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · Dec. 13, 1872 · Chapter III

Chapter III. for the Relief of John Black, late Consul of the United States a the City of Mexico

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CHAP. III.— An Act for the Relief of John Black, late Consul of the United States a the City of Mexico. Dec. 13, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment to John Black. is hereby authorized and directed to pay to John Black, late consul of the United States at the city of Mexico, the rate of compensation allowed by law to a secretary of legation, for his diplomatic services to the United States in Mexico during the suspension of diplomatic intercourse between Mexico and the United States, from the fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, to the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, inclusive.
Approved, December 13, 1872.
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