Chapter 1158. To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the accounts of Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company for transporting the United States mails
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CHAP. 1158.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust the accounts of Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company for transporting the United States mails. June 27, 1902.[[Public, No. 176](/us/pl/57/176).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company.Adjustment of accounts for transporting mails.
Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to state an account with Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company for transporting the United States mails over postal routes numbered thirty thousand and three and one hundred and forty-nine thousand and three during the period between July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, both inclusive, in which he shall credit said company with non-land-grant rates over that portion of its route between New Orleans and Morgan City, Louisiana, in accordance with the decision of the Court of Claims in case numbered fifteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and shall pay to said company, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sum as shall remain due upon such adjustment.
Approved, June 27, 1902.