Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 444.
(Report No. 516.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
April 26, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. McClelland, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of Peter Parker, secretary of legation and
Chinese interpreter at Canton, and Jacob L. Martin,
late secretary of legation in France.

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11 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That there be paid to Peter Parker, secretary
of legation and Chinese interpreter at Canton, out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the
rate of compensation allowed by law to a charge d’affaires
of the United States, for his diplomatic services from the
twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-
seven, to the twenty-eight day of June, eighteen hundred
and forty-eight, being the interval between the death of
Alexander H. Everett, Esq., late commissioner at Canton

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11 and the probable arrival there of the present commis-
sioner, John W. Davis, Esq.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there
be paid to Jacob L. Martin, late secretary of legation in
France, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, the rate of compensation allowed by law to
a charge d’affaires of the United States, for his diplomatic
services, from the fifteenth day of September, eighteen
hundred and forty-six, to the thirty-first of July, eighteen
hundred and forty-seven, being the time intervening be-
tween the recall of our late minister, Mr. King, and the
delivery by Mr. Rush, our present minister, of his cre-
dential letter to the King of the French.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Peter Parker, secretary of legation and Chinese interpreter at Canton, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the rate of compensation allowed by law to a charge d’affaires of the United States, for his diplomatic services from the twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty- seven, to the twenty-eight day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, being the interval between the death of Alexander H. Everett, Esq., late commissioner at Canton
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12 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	and the probable arrival there of the present commis- sioner, John W. Davis, Esq. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be paid to Jacob L. Martin, late secretary of legation in France, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the rate of compensation allowed by law to a charge d’affaires of the United States, for his diplomatic services, from the fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the thirty-first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, being the time intervening be- tween the recall of our late minister, Mr. King, and the delivery by Mr. Rush, our present minister, of his cre- dential letter to the King of the French.