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 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 244-246, 253. 1872. 195 road National Bank of Boston, in the city of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts. Sec. 2. That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as lj`£ights_andlia~ in any manner to release the said bank from any liability or affect any Bgétgigegéeiéank action or proceeding in law in which the said bank may be a party or in- ` terested. And when such change shall have been determined upon as aforesaid, notice thereof and of such change shall be published in at least Nom, of in one weekly newspaper in each of the counties of Middlesex and SuH`olk, change. in the State of Massachusetts, for not less than four successive weeks. Sec. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its When acttakes P,,_Ss&g8_ effect. Approved, May 31, 1872. CHAP. CCXLV. — An Act conferring upon the Court ty' Claims Power to hear and de- May 31, 1872. termine the Claim of J. W. Parish and Compan_z,rfor Damages for the alleged Violation """““"`”"' of their Contract with the United States for the Delivery of [ce. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That authority is hereby given (70*1** Of claims to J. W. Parish and Company to commence a suit against the United Qlgrggzgilgm States in the court of claims for the recovery of such damages as shall OH. W. Parish appear to have been sustained by them by reason of the alleged violation ami °°'“P**”Y· by agents of the United States of the contract entered into on the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by and between Henry Johnson, medical storekeepcr United States army, and acting medical purveyor, and the said J. W. Parish and Company, for the delivery by said firm of the whole amount of ice required to be consumed at Nashville, Saint Louis, Cairo, and Memphis during the remainder of that year; and said court is hereby invested with full power and authority to hear and determine the validity of said claim, and the amount, if any, of the damages of said J. W. Parish and Company, resulting solely from the violation of the contract, in the refusal of the government to receive the entire thirty thousand tons named in said contract. Approved, May 31, 1872. CHAP. CCXLVI.-—An Act for the Relief of John Potts, chief Clerk of the War June 1, 1872. Department. '"'_"—°;_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand Paym¤¤t *0 dollars be paid to John Potts, chief clerk of the War Department, for gg_ services as disbursing clerk, at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum, bursing clerk, from the fifteenth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That it shall be lawful hereafter to pay for such services, at such rate, whether to imh f§';_’*°°¤ such clerk shall have been appointed from class four, or from a higher he,.,;}:;, QQ8th_ grade, any existing law to the contrary notwithstanding. er, &c. Approved, May 31, 1872. CHAP. CCLII1.—·An Act to rescribe the Time jbr holding the Election jbr Electors tg` J¤¤¤ L 1872- President and {lice-President in the State of Louisiana. ______;` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the State of Louisiana _ Time {0* hq1d- the election of representatives to the forty-third Congress, and the ap- ;'§§gQS£“£;’;‘}s_ pointment of electors of President and Vice-President for said State, shall iana in 1872; be on the first Monday of November, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two; not thereafter such elections and appointment shall be on and aftervvai-us. the day designated by law for the other States. APPROVED, June 1, 1872.