Chapter CCCLXX. for the Relief of William Henry Otis
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CHAP. CCCLXX.— An Act for the Relief of William Henry Otis. June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment of damages to William Henry Otis. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay, or cause to be paid, to William Henry Otis, of Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, the sum of three thousand dollars, in full compensation for growing crop, fencing, and fruit-trees destroyed upon, and damages done by the United States troops in and to, forty-five and one-half acres of land belonging to the said William Henry Otis, known as Camp Burnside, lying and being adjacent to the said city of Indianapolis, while said land was occupied by said troops from the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one to the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
J. G. BLAINE, *Speaker of the House of Representatives.* SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.* Received by the President May 28, 1872. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]