Chapter 31. providing compensation to E
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CHAP. 31.— An Act providing compensation to E. E. Rice for property transferred by him to the Government of the United States for the use of the diplomatic and consular representatives at Hakodadi in Japan.June 18, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,E. E. Rice. Payment. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Elisha E. Bice, late United States consul at Hakodadi, Japan, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars coin; the same being in full payment for certain lots, and improvements thereon, in Hakodadi, Japan, conveyed by said Bice to the United States and used for consular purposes.
Approved, June 18, 1879.