Chapter CXXVI. for the, relief of the legal representatives of William Shannon and Hugh Shannon
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Chap. CXXVI.— An Act for the, relief of the legal representatives of William Shannon and Hugh Shannon. May 24, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * Claim for manufacture of. That the proper accounting officers of the treasury settle and adjust the claim of the representatives of William Shannon TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 127, 128, 129, 130. 1828. 385 and Hugh Shannon, for the manufacture of one thousand and fifty-threemuskets under a contract with Tench Coxe, to be settled. muskets, delivered to the United States, under a contract with Tench Coxe, entered into on the twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and make to them such further allowance as shall be equal to that allowed to others, who contracted about the same time to manufacture arms for the United States, and who have had their accounts settled under special acts of Congress; keeping in view the quality of the arms delivered, with the additional labor bestowed, more than would have been necessary to have made muskets equal to the pattern gun furnished by the United States; and such allowance to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 24, 1828.