Chapter 811. To refund excessive postage paid on certain newspapers
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CHAP. 811.— An Act To refund excessive postage paid on certain newspapers. March 2, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Refund of excessive postage authorized. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of 953any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the following persons the following amounts, being the sums, respectively, found by the Court of Claims as the difference between the postage at third-class rates, which they were required to pay and did pay on newspapers published by them, respectively, during the years eighteen hundred and ninety-three and eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and the postage at second-class rates with which such papers were legally chargeable, as follows:
To the Modern Woodmen of America, publisher of the—payees. Modern Woodman, of Springfield, Illinois, five thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents: to David I. Lillard, publisher of The Anchor and Shield, of Paris, Illinois, one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and nine cents; to Frank G. Simmons, publisher of the Nebraska Workman, of Seward, Nebraska, one thousand and ninety dollars and ninety-one cents, all as found and set forth by the Court of Claims in its findings of fact in House Documents Numbered Five hundred and ninety, Two hundred and ninety-four, and Five hundred and ninety-two, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session.
Approved, March 2, 1901.