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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Jan. 31, 1855 · Chapter LIII

Chapter LIII. for the Relief of William Hankins

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Chap. LIII.— An Act for the Relief of William Hankins. Jan. 31, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of War be, William Hankins to be paid $244.80 in full of a certain contract.and he is hereby, authorized to pay to William Hankins, the sum of two hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty cents; which sum is to be received in full discharge of all claim against the United States growing out of a contract made on the fifteenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, for the delivery of wood at Fort Johnson, in the State of North Carolina. Approved, January 31, 1855.
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