Chapter 256. to authorize the Secretary of State to allow for expenditures within named to James Rea, late consul at Belfast, IrelandJune 30, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James Rea
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CHAP. 256.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to allow for expenditures within named to James Rea, late consul at Belfast, IrelandJune 30, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James Rea.Payment to. That the Secretary of State be, anti he is hereby, authorized and instructed to allow to James Rea, late consul at Belfast, Ireland, for clerk-hire and other expenses incurred by him as such consul, such sum as he may find just and equitable, not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars per annum for the period during which he held the office of consul of the United States at Belfast; also the further sum of six hundred dollars expended by said Rea in boarding and defending certain destitute American seamen at Belfast while he was consul.
Approved, June 30, 1882.