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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · Aug. 5, 1848 · Chapter CXXVI

Chapter CXXVI. for the Relief of E

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Chap. CXXVI.— An Act for the Relief of E. G. Smith. Aug. 5, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Commissioner of Patents to pay E. G. Smith such compensation for extra services as he may deem a fair remuneration for the labors performed. That the Commissioner of Patents be authorized to pay E. G. Smith, from the patent fund, such compensation for extra service, out of office hours, rendered by him in the preparation of the agricultural report in eighteen hundred and forty-four and eighteen hundred and forty-five, as in the Commissioner’s judgment is a fair remuneration for the labor per-THIRTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 127, 128, 129, 130. 1848.729formed, on satisfactory proof being furnished him of the number of hours so employed, and according to the usual rate for similar services Approved, August 5, 1848.
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