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

Chapter XXIV. *for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Thomas Gordon, deceased.* 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 Treasury be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the legal

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Chap. XXIV.— An Act *for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of Thomas Gordon, deceased.* 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 Treasury be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the legal representatives of Thomas Gordon, deceased, out of any money in the Payment to representatives of Thomas Gordon.Treasury not otherwise appropriated, nineteen and eighteen ninetieths dollars, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the fifth flay of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, being in full for a certificate given by Timothy Pickering, quartermaster-general, to the said Thomas Gordon, deceased, for nineteen and eighteen ninetieths dollars and interest, and bearing date the twenty-ninth of July, one thou sand seven hundred and eighty-two.
Approved, August 23, 1856.
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