Chapter XX. *to provide for the Expenses of the Commission to enquire into Depredations on the Frontiers of the State of Texas*
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CHAP. XX.— An Act *to provide for the Expenses of the Commission to enquire into Depredations on the Frontiers of the State of Texas*. Jan. 8, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Conyress assembled*, Appropriation for commission upon depredations on the frontiers of Texas.*Ante*, p. 395. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to meet the expenses of the commission appointed under joint resolution, approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, “to enquire into depredations on the frontiers of the State of Texas,” viz.:
For salaries and travelling expenses of three commissioners, twelve thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. For salaries of secretary and translator, at eighteen hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars. For travelling expenses of the secretary and the translator, one thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the commission, one thousand dollars; and the work of said commission shall be completed within the current fiscal year, and at the termination of said year the duties and powers of said commission shall cease.
Approved, January 8, 1873.