Chapter 22. for the relief of the metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 22.— An Act for the relief of the metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia.Jan. 17, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Metropolitan police force of District of Columbia,Relief of.Appropriation. That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby directed to allow, and pay out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to each of such persons, or their legal representatives, who were officers, clerks, and employees of the metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia on the twenty-eighth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, a sum equal to twenty per centum on the salary of such 1867, ch. 99, vol. 14, p. 412.persons as fixed by law, for the time stated in said resolution of the twenty-eighth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Approved, January 17th, 1885.