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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 3 STAT. · Jan. 14, 1820 · Chapter V

Chapter V. supplementary to the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of the clerks in the different offices,” passed the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

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Chap. V.— An Act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of the clerks in the different offices,” passed the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.Jan. 14, 1820. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 87. Additional clerks in the office of the third auditor, and in the office of the second comptroller. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the authority given in the eighth section of the above-recited act, to the Secretary of the Treasury, to employ nine additional clerks in the office of the third auditor, and three additional clerks in the office of the second comptroller of the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, continued until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and no longer; and that the sum necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, and shall be Appropriations. paid, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, January 14, 1820.
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