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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · March 3, 1853 · Chapter CVI

Chapter CVI. *for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Waller Colton.* March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Payment to the representatives of Walter Colton

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Chap. CVI.— An Act *for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Waller Colton.* March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Payment to the representatives of Walter Colton.Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to the legal representatives of the late Walter Colton, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and thirty-three cents, the same being the amount deposited by said Colton in the Treasury of the United States, above the net amount for which the prize ship Admittance was purchased by his agent.
Approved, March 3, 1853.
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