Chapter 475.
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CHAP. 475.— An act for the relief of J. W. Parish and Company.March 2, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,J. W. Parish and Company. Payment to. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Joseph W. Parish, George C. Hadley, and William L. Huse, composing the firm of J. W. Parish and Company, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighteen thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be compensation in full to said firm for losses sustained by it by reason of the refusal of the officers of the United States to receive and pay for five thousand tons office which said Parish and Company had been directed to furnish under a contract dated December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and signed by the medical purveyor of the United States Army stationed at Louisville, Kentucky, and by said Parish and Company, and approved by the Acting Surgeon-General of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1889.