Chapter CXLVI. *for the Relief of Mrs
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Chap. CXLVI.— An Act *for the Relief of Mrs. Mary Gay.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be paid to Mrs. $2,000 to be paid Mrs. Mary Gay.Mary Gay, widow of the late William Gay, Indian agent for the Shawnees of Kansas Territory, and who was killed while in the discharge of his official duties, the sum of two thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as indemnity to cover his salary, the amount of money of which he was robbed, and the expenses of the widow and family in returning to thier home, in the State of Michigan. Approved, March 3, 1857.