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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · Jan. 8, 1857 · Chapter IV

Chapter IV. *for the Relief of Peter Grover.* Jan. 8, 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 Peter Grover, of the State of Maine, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight h

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Chap. IV.— An Act *for the Relief of Peter Grover.* Jan. 8, 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 Peter Grover, of the State of Maine, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight hundred dollars, being for injuries $800 to be paid to Peter Grover.received while in the employment of the United States in a dangerous service, and for medical and other expenses incurred in consequence thereof. Approved, January 8, 1856.[7]
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