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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · May 31, 1844 · Chapter XXXIV

Chapter XXXIV. *for the relief of Mam L

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Chap. XXXIV.— An Act *for the relief of Mam L. Mills.* May 31, 1844. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Postmaster-General be authorized, and is hereby required, to cause to be audited and paid to Adam L. MillsPayment for carrying the mail. the additional amount which may be found due him under a contract for carrying the mail from Vandalia, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri, dated the seventeenth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, at the rate of pay for the highest grade of service mentioned in said contract, from the eighteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to the full period for which said Mills carried the mail, under said contract, in four-horse post-coaches: and that the same be paid out of any moneys in the treasury appropriated for the use of the Post Office Department.
Approved, May 31, 1844.
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