Chapter 32. to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to examine and adjust the claim of O
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CHAP. 32.— An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to examine and adjust the claim of O. W. Streeter for moneys expended and services performed in taking the census of Dakota in eighteen hundred and sixty.Jan. 23, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,O. W. Streeter.Secretary of Interior authorized to examine and adjust claim of. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to examine and adjust the claim of O.
W. Streeter for moneys expended and services performed by him in the year eighteen hundred and sixty as special agent of the United States to take the census of the country west of Minnesota, then known as Dakota, allowing to the said O. W. Streeter, in addition to the amount, heretofore received by him, reimbursement for reasonable and necessary expenditures shown to have been made by him, and reasonable compensation for his time and services, settling the same on principles of justice and equity; and that he be, and is hereby, further authorized and directed to draw his requisition in favor of said claimant, O.
W. Streeter, for the amount which he may find justly due said claimant, on the Secretary of the Treasury, who is authorized and directed to pay the same out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise *Proviso.*appropriated: *Provided,* That the amount allowed and to be paid here under shall in no event exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars. Approved, January 23d, 1885.