Chapter LVI. for the relief of John Rice Jones
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Chap. LVI.— An Act for the relief of John Rice Jones. March 3, 1819. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle, onAccount to be settled as interpreter and translator. equitable principles, the account of John Rice Jones, for services rendered, and. expenses incurred, as an interpreter and translator of the French language, to the board of commissioners appointed for inquiring into the validity of claims to land in the district of Kaskaskia; and the amount found to be due, on such settlement, shall be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
Provided, The sum to be paid shall not exceed two hundred and eighty-one dollars. Approved, March 3, 1819.