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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · May 14, 1884 · Chapter 51

Chapter 51.

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CHAP. 51.— An act for the relief of M. P. Jones.May 14, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,M. P. Jones.Relief of.12 Stat., 384. That there be, and is hereby, appropriated) out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-five cents, to reimburse M. P. Jones for money deposited by him in the United States depository at Portland, Oregon, to complete the United States surveys along the line of the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road in Southeastern Oregon, and to pay the expenses of the clerical work in the office of the United States surveyor-general of Oregon, said money being deposited under the provisions of an act of Congress approved May thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, upon the surrender by him to the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the duplicate or triplicate certificates of deposit held by him.
Approved, May 14, 1884.
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