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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · Dec. 14, 1877 · Chapter 1

Chapter 1.

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CHAP. 1.— AN ACT to provide a method for the settlement and adjustment of the accounts of the Attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia.Dec. 14, 1877. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Settlement of accounts of Ü. S. Attorney, District of Columbia. That the emolument returns of the Attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia shall be returned to the Attorney-General, and the accounts of the said Attorney shall be rendered, audited, and paid in the same manner as accounts of all other district attorneys are rendered, audited, and paid. Approved, December 14, 1877.
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