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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · August 23, 1856 · Chapter VI

Chapter VI. *for the Relief of William B

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Chap. VI.— An Act *for the Relief of William B. Cozzens.* August 23, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Wm. B. Cozzena to be paid $1000.Treasury pay to William B. Cozzens the sum of one thousand dollars, in full compensation for his storehouse, taken from him for the use of the United States, in January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, by Captain L. H. Webb, by order of Quartermaster General Jesup. Approved, August 23, 1856.
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