Chapter CCCLXXI. for the Relief of Charles and Henry W
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CHAP. CCCLXXI.— An Act for the Relief of Charles and Henry W. Spencer. 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 Charles and Henry W. Spencer. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay Charles Spencer and Henry W. Spencer, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents, in full for the illegal seizure and destruction of their boat and personal property on the Mississippi river, at New Madrid, Missouri, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
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, FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 371–375. 1872. 679 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.]