Chapter 14.
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CHAP. 14.— An act to provide for the payment of the amount due the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway Company for transportation of United States mails. Jan. 9, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Postmaster-GeneralPayment to—Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway Co. be, and is hereby, authorized to pay to the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway Company the amount due said company for transporting the United States mails between Plymouth, Iowa, and Austin, Minnesota, from January eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, at the rates of compensation authorized by law between said dates; and the sum of five thousand six hundred and seventy dollars and forty cents, or soAppropriation. much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for this purpose out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the*Proviso*.
Postmaster-General that the said company actually transported United States mails between the points mentioned in this act during the time stated, for which it has received no compensation. Approved, January ninth, 1883.