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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Jan. 25, 1855 · Chapter XLVII

Chapter XLVII. for the Relief of the Children and Heirs of Major-General Baron DeKalb

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Chap. XLVII.— An Act for the Relief of the Children and Heirs of Major-General Baron DeKalb. Jan. 25, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That in consideration of the claims, services, and sacrifices of the late Major-General Baron DeKalb, in the war of the Revolution, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is $66,099.76 to be paid to children and heirs of Gen. DeKalb.hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the children and heirs of Baron DeKalb, named in the petition, the sum of sixty-six thousand and ninety-nine dollars and seventy-six cents, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, January 25, 1855.
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