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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · June 20, 1862 · Chapter CXVIII

Chapter CXVIII. to pay B

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Chap. CXVIII.— An Act to pay B. Y. Shelley for his Claim and Improvements taken from him by the Omaha Reservation in the Territory of Nebraska.June 20, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedPayment to Benneville Y. Shelley. States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appro-907THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 131, 132, 136. 1862.priated, to Benneville Y.
Shelley, thirteen hundred and fifteen dollars, in full for all claims of said Shelley against the government of the United States for his “claim” and improvements thereon, which were taken from him by the United States for the Omaha reservation, in Nebraska Territory, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five. Approved, June 20, 1862.
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