Chapter LXXVII. for the Relief of Friend A
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CHAP. LXXVII.— An Act for the Relief of Friend A. Brainard.May 4, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment to Friend A. Brainard. be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Friend A. Brainard, of Bridport, Vermont, the sum of three hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; said sum of money having been improperly exacted of him, as commutation money, in eighteen hundred and sixty-three, while he was still suffering from wounds received in battle while a soldier in the army of the United States. Approved, May 4, 1870.