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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · Feb. 25, 1873 · Chapter CCIV

Chapter CCIV. for the Relief of John B

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CHAP. CCIV.— An Act for the Relief of John B. Emerson. Feb. 25, 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 TreasuryPayment to John B. Emerson. pay to John B. Emerson, or his legal representatives, the sum of twenty-five thousand six hundred and ten dollars, to be received in full satisfaction for any and all claim of the said John B. Emerson, for an infringement by the United States of his letters-patent dated March eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. Approved, February 25, 1873.
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