Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Thomas Scott, late register of the land office at Chillicothe, Ohio, such amount as may be a reasonable compensation for extra labor performed by persons employed by him, in consequence of the transfer to said office of the business of certain other land offices, under the act approved June twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty: Provided, That the whole amount so paid shall not exceed five hundred dollars.

Approved, June 28, 1848.