Chapter XLI. for the Relief of Hobson Johns
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Chap. XLI.— An Act for the Relief of Hobson Johns. March 2, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Secretary of the Navy to audit and adjust the account of Hobson Joans. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to audit and adjust the account of Hobson Johns for tobacco furnished the navy under his contract with the department, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-five, and if the said Secretary shall be satisfied that said Johns entered into said contract under a mistake as to the standard sample furnished by the department, in consequence of a new and superior sample having been substituted by the department for the one originally shown said Johns, of which substitution he was, at the time of making said contract, ignorant, the said Secretary shall Such further compensation to be allowed him as is just and equitable.allow said Johns such further compensation, over and above the price stipulated in said contract, as shall be just and equitable; which allowance, when so ascertained, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1847.