Aug. 5, 1848.
Chap. CXXVI. — An Act for the Relief of E. G. Smith.
Commissioner of Patents to pay E. G. Smith such compensation for extra services as
he may deem a fair remuneration for the labors performed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Patents be authorized to pay E. G. Smith, from the patent
fund, such compensation for extra service, out of office hours, rendered by him in
the preparation of the agricultural report in eighteen hundred and forty-four and
eighteen hundred and forty-five, as in the Commissioner's judgment is a fair remuneration
for the labor per-
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formed, on satisfactory proof being furnished him of the number of hours so employed,
and according to the usual rate for similar services
Approved, August 5, 1848.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Private Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 728-29