Chapter CCCVII. to settle the Claim of the Heirs of the late Colonel William Gates, of the United States Army
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CHAP. CCCVII.— An Act to settle the Claim of the Heirs of the late Colonel William Gates, of the United States Army.July 15, 1870. *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 Mrs. H. L. Gates. Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to pay the sum of five thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents to Mrs. H. L. Gates, widow of the late Colonel William Gates, of the United States army, who acted as collector of revenue or military contributions, during the late war with Mexico, under the direction of the President of the United States, it being the amount of his share of the proceeds of the sale of the schooner Oregon and cargo, seized and confiscated in April, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, at the port of Tampico, being equal to the share of his deputy, Franklin Chase and others, his subordinates, who, by special1855, ch. 187.Vol. x. p. 865. acts of Congress, have been allowed and paid their shares of the said vessel and cargo, and that the amount of said claim be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 15, 1870.