Volume 22
Private Law 47–145
for the relief of J. J. Coffey and Rebecca S. Lewis, mother of Burge Rawle Lewis.
Approved March 3, 1883
Statutory text
An act
for the relief of J. J. Coffey and Rebecca S. Lewis, mother of Burge Rawle Lewis.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars each to J, J. Coffey and Rebecca S. Lewis, mother of Burge Rawle Lewis, being in full compensation for salary while the said J. J. Coffey and Burge Rawle Lewis were kept out of their positions as clerks in the consulate-general at Shanghai China, upon their return after testifying in the Seward investigation before the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department, in eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Approved, March 3, 1883.