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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · April 18, 1856 · Chapter XV

Chapter XV. for the Relief of Jacob Dodson

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Chap. XV.— An Act for the Relief of Jacob Dodson.April 18, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatPayment to Jacob Dodson. the proper accounting officers of the government be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to allow Jacob Dodson, a colored man, who, on the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, at the American Forks, in California, volunteered as a private, for during the war, in Captain Richard Owen’s company of the California battalion, and who was discharged therefrom on the fourteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, at Los Angelos, in California, all the pay and allowances to which he would be entitled, under the existing laws for such service, in the same manner as if he had been legally enlisted in, and honorably discharged from, the service of the United States, deducting therefrom the sum of two hundred and eighty-one dollars, paid to him by ColonelTHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 16, 17, 22, 27. 1856.447 J. C. Fremont for his services as a member of the exploring expedition, within the period named above; the amount necessary therefor to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 18, 1856. Chapter XVI: to authorize the Issue of a Register to the Brig “Echo” of Boston. 11 Stat. 447 1856-04-18 Chapter XVI Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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