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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · March 3, 1873 · Chapter CCCLXI

Chapter CCCLXI. *for the Relief of Amherst H

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CHAP. CCCLXI.— An Act *for the Relief of Amherst H. Wilder.* March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Pay to Amherst H. Wilder.be authorized and directed to pay to Amherst H. Wilder, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, three thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-one cents, found due him by the court of claims and Supreme Court, but which he was prevented from collecting by the failure of the War Department to finally act upon the same until more than six years after the claim accrued. Approved, March 3, 1873.
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