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Private Law 19–LXXII
for the relief of Edward R. Gibson, and William H. Simmons, and their clerks.
Approved March 2, 1827
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Edward R. Gibson, and William H. Simmons, and their clerks.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to receive, audit, and settle, the accounts of Edward R. Gibson and William H. Simmons, and their NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 73, 74, 75. 1827. two clerks, for services performed under instructions from the Department of State, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, passed on the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, requesting the President to take measures for the safe keeping and security of the public archives in Florida; and to pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the allowance to the said Edward
Proviso.
R. Gibson and William H. Simmons, for such services, shall not exceed the sum specified in the instructions aforesaid, and that the allowance to their clerks shall not exceed the rate at present allowed by law for similar services.
Approved, .