Private Law 28–CLXVII

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause the claim of the legal representatives of

Payment for services as register of land office at Opelousas.

Robert A. Kelly, for the services of said Kelly as register of the land office at Opelousas, in the state of Louisiana, in making a report to the Secretary of the Treasury, in one thousand eight hundred and forty, in obedience to an order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and in conformity to “An act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the state of Louisiana,” approved February six, one thousand

Act of Feb. 6, 1835, ch. 17.

eight hundred and thirty-five, and for money paid by the said Kelly for translating instruments of writing filed among the papers of claimants under said law, to be audited, settled, and paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the sum so paid to

Proviso.

the representatives of said Kelly shall not exceed five hundred dollars for his services, and one hundred dollars for money paid for translations.