Chapter CXX. for the Relief of Otis N
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CHAP. CXX.— An Act for the Relief of Otis N. Cutler, of Missouri.June 1, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be, and is hereby,Payment to Otis N. Cutler. appropriated to Otis N. Cutler the sum of fifty thousand dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for two hundred and sixty-eight bales of cotton seized by order of General Grant, at Lake Providence, Louisiana, the property of said Cutler, used for military purposes in equipping the steamer Tigress for running the blockade of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, on the night of April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and destroyed.
Approved, June 1, 1870.