Chapter CLVIII. for the Relief of Amos Knapp
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Chap. CLVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Amos Knapp. March 2, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Amos Knapp, out of anyPayment to Amos Knapp. money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to eleven dollars per month from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to the date of approval of this act; and that his pension, granted by act of July twelve, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, is hereby declared to be increased to the rate of eleven dollars per month, to continue duringHis pension increased. his natural life:
Provided, That any sum which the said Knapp may have received under the act approved July twelve, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, shall be deducted from the amount required to be paid by the1852, ch. 63. provisions of this act. Approved, March 2, 1855.