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Public Law 39–CCCII

to amend an Act entitled “An Act making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

Approved July 28, 1866

Statutory text

An Act

to amend an Act entitled “An Act making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the proviso to the seventeenth

Secretary of Treasury may appoint disbursing agent, where there is no collector at place of location of any public work.

section of the act to which this act is an amendment be altered so as to read as follows: And provided further, That where there is no collector at the place of location of any public work herein specified, the Secretary of the Treasury shall have power to appoint a disbursing agent for the payment of all moneys that are, or may be hereafter, appropriated for the construction of any such public work, with such compensation as he may deem equitable and just, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this section be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approved, .

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