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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 3, 1839 · Chapter CXLIII

Chapter CXLIII. *for the relief if John Proton and Company.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized Settlement with them, &c.and directed to settle with John Brown and Company, and pay to them such sum of money as they in justice and equity ought to receive for carrying

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Chap. CXLIII.— An Act *for the relief if John Proton and Company.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized Settlement with them, &c.and directed to settle with John Brown and Company, and pay to them such sum of money as they in justice and equity ought to receive for carrying the New Orleans mail from the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, to Fredericktown, in the state of Maryland, from the twenty-third day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the seventh day of July next following. Approved, March 3, 1839.
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