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ETB Tl-IIB/l`Y—EIGH'1`H CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 25, 26. 1864. United States, for services and labor rendered to the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the rolls and vouchers therefor on file in the officc of the fourth auditor of the treasury, bc, and the same are hereby, legalized for the benefit of Paymaster Edward C. Accounts of Doran, of the United States Navy; and that the accounting oilioers of the £d¥;‘;t%S£%’°“ treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to credit the said Paymusand $29;]381 paid ter Edward C. Doran, in the settlement of his account, with the sum of himtwentymine thousand three hundred and eighty-one dollars. ($29,381.) APPROVED, March 3, 1864. Mm.,,}, 8 IgM_ Cuny. XXV. ——An Act for the Reliq" iq John H. Shepherd and Walter K. Caldwell, ——-—l-——— of;} issouri. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Paymmmo be States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General be made John H. instructed to allow and pay to the said Shepherd and Caldwell, all sums §$‘§R;‘f'I‘é agglm ·of money remaining due and unpaid and heretofore withheld by the post.- Wcupor cgrrying office department for carrying the mails during the years eighteen hunthé mails- dred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five, on routes numbered eight thousand eight hundred and eighteen andeight thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the State of Missouri; said payments to be made for the time during which service was actually performed on said routes, at the rate of twenty-one hundred dollars per year on route number eight thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and at the rate of fourteen hundred and sixty dollars on route number eight thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, without making any deduction on account of the refusal of said contractors to enter into new contracts for performing extra service, or on account of reletting the same. And the Postmaster General is further instructed to Pay to said contractors any sums of money due them for carrying the mails on routes numbered eight thousand eight hundred and nineteen and eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in said State, during the years aforesaid, and withheld by the post-oflice department, on account of ·the reletting of the two routes first named. Approved, March 8, 1864. March 8, 1864. CHAP. XXVI. -·An Act for the Relief of L. E Cartee. Be it enacted 'by toe Senate and House of Representatives.qf the United P,)-mam of States of America m Congress assembled, That lll8•COlT\mlSS10DBl‘ of the $3033-50 *0 LF- general land oiHce be, and he is hereby, autlnorized to pay to L. F. ggxfgfifnzzrgu Cartee the sum of three thousand and thirty-three dollars and fifty cents, Oregon. for services performed in surveys of the public lands in the State of Oregon in excess of his contract with the surveyor-general of Oregon, dated October fou rteen, eighteen hundred and sxxty, and the sum of three thousand and thirty-three dollars and fifty cents is hereby appropriated for said payment, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That before any-payment is made, as provuled for by this act, the work performed by said L. F. Cartee shall be tested in the field by actual examination thereof, under the direction of the surveyorgeneral of Oregon, and any correction made, necessary to make it conformable to the laws of the United States and the instructions governing the surveys of the public lands, at the expense of the said L. F. Cartee, and the balance only of said appropriation paid him after deducting said expense of inspection and correction, and when the certificate of the surveyor-genoral of Oregon is filed with the commissioner of the general land office that said survey is complete according to the law and regulations governing public surveys. APPROVED, March 8, 1864.