Volume 12
Public Law 37–CLIX
far the Relief of the Register of the Land Office at Vincennes, Indiana, and for other Purposes.
Approved July 12, 1862
Statutory text
An Act
far the Relief of the Register of the Land Office at Vincennes, Indiana, and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to make such alIowance for office rent during the temporary continuance of the land office at Vincennes, Indiana, as may, in his opinion, be just and proper.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary be authorized to adjust the account of John Moore, postmaster at Vincennes, Indiana, and allow him, at the usual rates for such services, compensation for the custody of the books, papers, and so forth, of the land office at Vincennes, Indiana, during the time the same were in his charge, under instructions from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated September third, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; these alIowances to be paid out of the appropriation for incidental expenses of district land offices: Provided, That the total sum paid under this act shall not exceed five hundred dollars.
Approved, .