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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · July 14, 1870 · Chapter CCXC

Chapter CCXC. for the Relief of William Selden

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CHAP. CCXC.— An Act for the Relief of William Selden.July 14, 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 William Selden. Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be paid to William Selden, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, in full for all claim against the United States for the use and occupation of personal and real property by military authority within the District of Columbia in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and thereafter. Approved, July 14, 1870.
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