Chapter LIII. to compensate Mrs
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CHAP. LIII.— An Act to compensate Mrs. Fannie Kelly for important Services.April 12, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there be paid to Mrs.Payment to Mrs. Fannie Kelly. Fannie Kelly, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, for valuable services rendered the government in eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by giving information to Captain James L.
Fisk, in charge of a train crossing the plains, and to Major House, in command of Fort Sully, of the evil designs of hostile Sioux Indians while she was held in captivity by them, which sum shall be taken from any appropriation which may be hereafter made for the benefit of said Indians. Approved, April 12, 1870.