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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · March 2, 1857 · Chapter LXXI

Chapter LXXI. *for the Relief of Jesse Morrison, of Illinois.* March 2, 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 Jesse $500 to be paid to Jesse Morrison

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Chap. LXXI.— An Act *for the Relief of Jesse Morrison, of Illinois.* March 2, 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 Jesse $500 to be paid to Jesse Morrison.Morrison, of Illinois, the sum of five hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same being in full for damage in being dispossessed of his storehouse at Fort Jackson, Michigan Terri-504THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 72, 73, 74, 75, 76. 1857.tory, for use of the United States military force, and for rent of the said storehouse by the government during the Black Hawk war. Approved, March 2, 1857.
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