Feb. 26, 1849.
(No. 8.)—Joint Resolution for the Relief of J. Melville Gilliss and others.
Accounting officers of the treasury, in settling the accounts of Lieut. J. M. Gilliss,
and his assistants, to allow to each of them certain extra pay.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and directed, in
settling the accounts of Lieutenant J. Melville Gilliss, of the navy, for the time
during which he had charge of the depot of charts at Washington, and also in settling
the accounts of those officers of the navy who were employed as additional assistants
of Lieutenant Gilliss, for making
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astronomical and scientific observations in connection with the objects of the late
surveying and exploring expendition, to allow him and each of them, respectively, such extra pay as was allowed by the
act of one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, chapter one hundred, to the officers
attached to that expedition.
Approved, February 26, 1849.
Printed Document. 2 pages; Private Acts, IX, 30th Cong., 2nd sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 792-93