Volume 6
Private Law 17–LXXXIV
for the relief of John Coffee.
Approved March 3, 1823
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of John Coffee.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officers of the treasury
Accounts for clerk hire to be settled.
department be, and they are hereby authorized to audit and settle the accounts of John Coffee, surveyor of public lands in Alabama, for clerk hire, previously to the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, on the principles of justice and equity, and to
Proviso.,
make such allowance as may appear reasonable: Provided; Such allowance shall not exceed the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, from the commencement of his services as Surveyor General, to the passing
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 126.
of the “Act respecting the surveying and sale of the public lands in the Alabama territory,” that being the amount allowed him for clerk hire after the passing of said act.
Approved, .