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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · February 20, 1901 · Chapter 458

Chapter 458. For the relief of the employees of William M

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CHAP. 458.— An Act For the relief of the employees of William M. Jacobs. February 20, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, William M. Jacobs.Payment authorized to employees of. That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to pay to the employees of William M. Jacobs who were employed between April tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, inclusive, in his cigar factory at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, such sums of money as may be respectively due them for their labor during such period, not exceeding twenty dollars for any employee and not exceeding two thousand seven hundred and five dollars for all.
The said sums to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury after he shall be satisfied as to the identity of the various employees and the correctness of the respective amounts due them, and to be paid out of moneys in the Treasury received from the sale of cigars seized in the factory of said William M. Jacobs and forfeited for violation of the internal-revenue laws, and a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 20, 1901.
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