United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 64
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXIV.—An Act to enable the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department to audit and settle the accounts of the surveyor of public lands in the states of Illinois and Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, for extra clerk hire in his office.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting Officers of the treasury to settle the accounts of the surveyor of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, for extra clerk hire.
Act of April 3, 1818, ch. 26.officers of the treasury shall be, and are hereby, authorized and required to audit and settle the accounts of the surveyor of public lands in the states of Illinois and Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, for extra clerk hire in his office, for surveying executed before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and for which provision was not made by an allowance of mileage on the surveys of the public lands, under the act of the Congress of the United States, of the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and make him an allowance therefor, not exceeding the rate of clerk hire now allowed by law in the offices of the other surveyors general, proportioned to the quantity of work done in each; and the amount, so allowed, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1823.