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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 13 STAT. · March 3, 1865 · Chapter CXXVIII

Chapter CXXVIII. for the Relief of Charles A

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Chap. CXXVIII.— An Act for the Relief of Charles A. Pitcher.March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the TreasuryDamages to Charles A. Pitcher. be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Charles A. Pitcher the sum of five thousand dollars for damages sustained by reason of the infringement of a patent on a machine for making brooms, and the use of the same in the penitentiary of the United States, from November first, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, to the twentieth of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
Approved, March 3, 1865.
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