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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · March 2, 1861 · Chapter XCVI

Chapter XCVI. for the Relief of John H

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Chap. XCVI.— An Act for the Relief of John H. Wheeler.March 2, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of thePayment to John H. Wheeler for losses and expenditures. Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to John H. Wheeler, late minister resident of the United States at Nicaragua, the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty cents, in full for losses by exchange, for property destroyed at Granada, expenses incurred in taking testimony at San Juan del Norte, and for relief extended to distressed American citizens crossing the Isthmus during the interval between890THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 97, 98, 99, 100, 101. 1861. October, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and October, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. Approved, March 2, 1861.
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